A.W.A.D. - I'm not Sure of the Theme

with Anu Garg


stenotopic
PRONUNCIATION: (sten-uh-TOP-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Able to adapt only to a small range of environmental conditions

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek steno- (narrow, small) + topos (place). Opposite is eurytopic

USAGE: "Like any gathering of aged immigrants, this was one helluva stenotopic congregation." Haim Chertok; Beating Blindness, and Bureaucracy, in Beersheba; The Jerusalem Post (Israel); Feb 9, 1996.


menticide
PRONUNCIATION: (MEN-tuh-syd)
MEANING: noun: The systematic undermining of a person's beliefs, attitudes, and values

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ment- (mind) + -cide (killing)

USAGE: "Our compliance with the dictates of Donor Agencies and environmentalists not to use DDT amounts to suicide or at least menticide of our people." Dr. Matthias Offoboche; Tackling Malaria the DDT Way; This Day (Lagos, Nigeria); Nov 29, 2005.


eurybathic
PRONUNCIATION: (yoor-uh-BATH-ik)
MEANING: adjective:: Capable of living in a wide range of depths in water

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek eury- (wide) + bathos (depth). The opposite is stenobathic

USAGE: "Eurybathic species are abundant over most of the depth range down to 600-700 m." Guido di Prisco and Eva Pisano; Fishes of Antarctica; Springer; 1998.


exogenous
PRONUNCIATION: (ek-SOJ-uh-nuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Originating from outside

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek exo- (outside) + -gen (relating to producing). Opposite is endogenous

USAGE: "The key to understanding this crisis -- the worst since the 1930s -- is to see that it was generated within the financial system itself. What we are witnessing is not the result of some exogenous shock that knocked things off balance." George Soros; A New Motor For the World Economy; The Bangkok Post (Thailand); Oct 18, 2008.

cacography
PRONUNCIATION: (kuh-KOG-ruh-fee)
MEANING: noun:
1. Bad handwriting
2. Incorrect spelling

ETYMOLOGY: From caco- (bad), from Greek kakos (bad) + -graphy (writing). Caco is ultimately from the Indo-European root kakka-/kaka- (to defecate) which also gave us poppycock, cacophony, and cucking stool. Opposites of today's word are calligraphy (beautiful handwriting) and orthography (correct spelling). A related word is cacology.

USAGE: "Before I could think of quitting, my boss enlightened me on the virtues of my handwriting, which was sheer cacography: 'Your writing is in direct competition with the Harappan script that still had the hope of being deciphered in the distant future.'" Vikram Kumar; Positions Very Vacant; The Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India); Apr 15, 2008.

"They [Nerds Inc.] have taken advantage of cacography in a novel way. ... They registered more than 90 of the most probable misspellings of popular Web addresses afforded by the QWERTY keyboard, for processing by typo.net." Thomas W. Holcomb Jr.; Nerds Inc. Turns Typos Into On-Line Advertising; The New York Times; Jun 2, 1997.

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