Today's Word "Sciolist"
Lacking grace
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Published in Vocabulary
sciolist \SAI-uh-list\ (noun) - One who engages in pretentious display of superficial knowledge.
"Jason's ignorance of the progress which the marketing department had up to that time made was only equalled by his insolence toward its members in comparison with whom he was the merest sciolist."
From Late Latin sciolus (smatterer), diminutive of Latin scius (knowing), from scire (to know). Another example of the similar kind of word formation is the name of the bird oriole which is derived from the diminutive form of Latin aureus (golden).
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