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Today's Word "efficacious"

expunge \ik-SPUNJ\ (transitive verb) - 1 : To strike out, erase, or mark for deletion; to obliterate; as, "to expunge words, lines, or sentences." 2 : To wipe out or destroy; to annihilate.

"When you talk you can't stop to polish a phrase, to search for precisely the right word, nor can you go back and expunge a word, a phrase, a whole paragraph." -- Henry Miller, 'Plexus'

Expunge is from Latin expungere, "to prick out, to mark (with dots) for deletion," from ex-, "out of, from" + pungere, "to prick."



This news arrived on: 06/22/2009
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09-17-2009 13:50
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Hello, introducing myself

First-rate Post.

I want to thank you for the information.



08-13-2009 00:14
Lazyacious wrote:



Definitely, that was not efficacious work!



07-31-2009 18:32
deeber wrote:

efficacious

somebody slipped. They should be expunged!



06-30-2009 13:13
tesfatadelle wrote:

efficacious

"Post Not Accepted". Wow, great!



06-30-2009 13:10
tesfatadelle wrote:

efficacious

Wow. I thought I was the only one who learned from your daily word treats. This is the best way to gauge the interest of those who read your daily Vocabulary contributions to us dummies. Bravo, keep sprinkling as such and watch the interst of us all and don't mind the few p****s you may creat along the way.




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