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You can balance both career and education with the University of Phoenix degree program, which is 100% online! More working professionals attend the University of Phoenix than any other private university in the United States. Learn more: http://quinst.com/clk/yuansangxiudezao <a href="http://quinst.com/clk/yuansangxiudezao"< AOL users click here</a< _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ Word of the Day for Tuesday March 19, 2002: levity \LEV-uh-tee\, noun: 1. Lightness of manner or speech, especially when inappropriate or excessive; frivolity. 2. Lack of steadiness or constancy; changeableness. They sat there in their formal bargeman's rig... looking solemn: they were part of a ceremony, and levity, winking, whispering, smiling, had no place in it. --Patrick O'Brian, [1]The Hundred Days I must say that if the doctor was indulging in levity at my expense, it is a levity I find in the worst possible taste. --Alfred Alcorn, Murder in the Museum of Man _________________________________________________________ Levity is from Latin levitas, from levis, "light." References 1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393319792/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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