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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 Saturday March 9, 2002: unctuous \UNGK-choo-us\, adjective: 1. Of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; fatty; oily; greasy. 2. Having a smooth, greasy feel, as certain minerals. 3. Insincerely or excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; marked by a false or smug earnestness or agreeableness. A warmed, crusty French roll arrives split, lightly smeared with unctuous chopped liver. --John Kessler, "Meals To Go: Break from the routine with Hong," [1]Atlanta Journal and Constitution, October 22, 1998 She recalled being offended by the "phoniness" that stemmed from the contradiction between her mother's charming, even unctuous public manner and her anger in private. --Daniel Horowitz, [2]Betty Friedan And the Making of 'The Feminine Mystique' He approached Sean wearing a smile so unctuous it seemed about to slide right off his face. --Naeem Murr, [3]The Boy _________________________________________________________ Unctuous is from Medieval Latin unctuosus, from Latin unctus, "anointed, besmeared, greasy," past participle of unguere, "to anoint, to besmear." References 1. http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/ 2. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1558492763/ref%3Dnosim/lexico 3. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0395957907/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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