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Earn your degree FAST. Earn your degree in as little as 8 months while taking online classes at your convenience. AIU Online offers a variety of Business Administration and Information Technology programs. Point your career upward with AIU Online. http://quinst.com/clk/dantottsutoureinomeda <a href="http://quinst.com/clk/dantottsutoureinomeda"< AOL users click here </a< \-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-/ Word of the Day for Friday March 1, 2002: prolix \pro-LIKS; PRO-liks\, adjective: 1. Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; wordy. 2. Tending to speak or write at excessive length. It was a cumbersome book, widely criticized for being prolix in style and maddeningly circular in argument. --Simon Winchester, "Word Imperfect," [1]The Atlantic, May 2001 Montaigne is a little too prolix in his determination to tell us almost everything that happens as he fishes his way across the country, and he gives us a few too many accounts of the people he meets and of their repetitiously gloomy opinions. --Adam Hochschild, "Deep Wigglers of the Volga," [2]New York Times, June 28, 1998 Greenspan, on the other hand, is given to prolix comments whose sentences are hung like Christmas trees with dependent clauses. --John M. Berry, "Greenspan: A Man Aware of Feasibility," [3]Washington Post, June 14, 1987 _________________________________________________________ Prolix is derived from Latin prolixus, "poured forth, overflowing, extended, long," from pro-, "forward" + liquere, "to be fluid." References 1. http://www.theatlantic.com/ 2. http://www.nytimes.com/ 3. http://www.washingtonpost.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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