(GRE Success! ) Fwd: A.Word.A.Day--filipendulous

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 filipendulous

PRONUNCIATION:
 (fi-li-PEN-juh-luhs, -PEN-dyoo-)
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MEANING:
 adjective: Hanging by a thread.

ETYMOLOGY:
 From Latin filum (thread) + pendere (to hang). Ultimately from the
Indo-European root (s)pen- (to draw, to spin), which is also the source of
pendulum, spider, pound, pansy, pendant, ponder, appendix, penthouse,
depend, and spontaneous. Earliest documented use: 1864.

USAGE:
 "A group of filipendulous constructions that evoke Brobdingnagian hornets'
nests."
The New Yorker; Sep 25, 1989.

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