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BECOME A FOOL! For stock ideas, retire-early strategies, and money-saving tips Register for free with The Motley Fool You'll receive our "13 Steps to Investing Foolishly" guide, free Plus, access to our irreverent take on all things financial. http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/47328/162281/162281 <a href="http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/47328/162281/162281"< AOL users click here </a< \-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-/ Word of the Day for Monday March 18, 2002: aspersion \uh-SPUR-zhuhn; -shuhn\, noun: 1. A damaging or derogatory remark; slander. 2. The act of defaming or slandering. 3. A sprinkling with water, especially in religious ceremonies. Orley had once been forced to resign from a local men's club for casting aspersions on the character of another member's wife. --Thomas A. Underwood, Allen Tate: Orphan of the South Its meetings were fiercely argumentative; members seemed to love nothing better than to cast aspersions on each other's intellect and class loyalty. --Glenn Frankel, [1]Rivonia's Children _________________________________________________________ Aspersion is from Latin aspersio, from aspergere, from ad- + spargere, "to scatter, to sprinkle, to strew." References 1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0826413315/ref%3Dnosim/lexico _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: matt.motley@enron.com To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-WordoftheDay@lists.lexico.com To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-wordoftheday-357530C@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2002 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.
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