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A.Word.A.Day--gargantua Wish to share your love of words? Send a gift subscription of A.Word.A.Day. Pronunciation: WAV or RealAudio gargantua (gar-GAN-choo-uh) noun A person of great size or stature and of voracious physical or intellectual appetites. [After the giant hero of "Gargantua and Pantagruel" by Francois Rabelais.] "To top it all off, the harvests, despite their gargantuan scale, are too small to sustain the overcapitalized fleet." Bernton, Hal, Battle for the deep, Mother Jones, 1 Jul 1994. This week's theme: eponyms. X-Bonus Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. -Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet (1861-1941)

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