This week's theme: miscellaneous words. scorbutic (skor-BYOO-tik) adjective
Pertaining to or afflicted with scurvy. [From Latin scorbutus (scurvy) which also shows up in ascorbic acid (scientific name of vitamin C), the deficiency of which causes scurvy.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=scorbutic -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "We found him sure enough, a huge, coarse, red-faced, scorbutic man, with a pair of vivid black eyes which were the only external sign of the very cunning mind within." Arthur Conan Doyle; The Adventure of the Illustrious Client; 1924. Sponsored by: Acronym Finder -- the authoritative acronym and abbreviation reference source for over 10 years. Free and easy to use. http://www.acronymfinder.com/awad.aspx Think you think as well as you can? Think Again. You can be more creative, more productive, more effective. Read "Think Better": http://tenkaizen.com ............................................................................ If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. -Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (1850-1894) Send your comments to (words AT wordsmith.org). To unsubscribe, update address send gift subscription, etc., visit http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/scorbutic.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/scorbutic.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/scorbutic.html This message was sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
