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Need money for college? Use FastWeb's free scholarship search to find information on more than 600,000 scholarships! It's easy and free. We'll match your background against our database of over 600,000 scholarships! And we'll update you when new scholarships matching your background are added to our database. FastWeb is recommended by more than 3,000 colleges and 14,000 high schools. http://www.fastweb.com/ib/dictionary-1f <A HREF="http://www.fastweb.com/ib/dictionary-1f"< AOL users click here</A< =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Word of the Day for Sunday March 31, 2002: gravitas \GRAV-uh-tahs\, noun: High seriousness (as in a person's bearing or in the treatment of a subject). At first sight the tall, stooped figure with the hawk-like features and bloodless cheeks, the look of extreme gravitas, seems forbidding and austere, the abbot of an ascetic order, scion of an imperial family who has foresworn the world. --John Lehmann, "T.S. Eliot Talks About Himself and the Drive to Create," [1]New York Times, November 9, 1953 And we want to tell our readers about sharp, clever books, utterly lacking in gravitas, that we know will delight them on the beach or the bus. --Benjamin Schwarz, "(Some of) the best books of 2001," [2]The Atlantic, December 2001 _________________________________________________________ Gravitas is from the Latin gravitas, "heaviness, seriousness," from gravis, "heavy, serious." References 1. http://www.nytimes.com/ 2. http://www.theatlantic.com/ _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ 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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