Why is there so much negativity around us? Open a newspaper, watch TV, listen to the radio, and you find nothing but negative words. Ever wonder why some words almost always appear in their negative forms? It's completely evitable, as the words for the next five days prove.
This week's AWAD presents words that are scrutable and a quick peek in the dictionary shows that these are licit formations. Use these words in your writing for a gainly touch, a couth appearance. I hope you feel gruntled with this week's theme. sipid (SIP-id) adjective Having a pleasing taste or flavor. [Back formation from insipid, from Late Latin insipidus, from in- (not) + sapidus (savory), from sapere (to taste, to know). Ultimately from Indo-European root sep ep- (to taste or perceive) that is also the source of sage, savant, savvy, savor, sapid, sapient, and insipid.] -Anu Garg (gargATwordsmith.org) "CBS adds two new comedies to the mix this year, moving the insipid 'Major Dad' to Friday nights to make room for John Ritter and Markie Post in the slightly more sipid 'Hearts Afire'." Ed Siegel; Monday: CBS is the Ticket; Boston Globe; Sep 14, 1992. Sponsored by: Crafted yet accessible poetry by Kristina Simms. Surprisingly inexpensive chapbooks available! Read some at http://georgiaoutsiderpoet.blogspot.com Always find the right word with the Visual Thesaurus. Wordsmith readers save 10%. Try it free! http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?code=ax3&ad=aw ............................................................................ There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it. -Dale Carnegie, author and educator (1888-1955) Discuss this week's theme or words at our online bulletin board: http://wordsmith.org/board Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/sipid.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/sipid.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/sipid.html This message was sent to "[email protected]".
