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A.Word.A.Day--sententious sententious (sen-TEN-shuhs) adjective 1. Full of pithy expressions. 2. Full of pompous moralizing. [From Middle English, from Latin sententiosus (full of meaning), from sententia (opinion), from sentire (to feel or to have an opinion). Some other words derived from the same root are: sense, sentence, sentiment, sentinel, assent, consent, dissent, resent.] "I enjoyed every glowing frame of the leisurely trip, which is punctuated by sententious epigrams. ('Lies are dreams caught red-handed,' or 'Marriage is the perfect murder of love.')" Joe Morgenstern; Film Review; The Wall Street Journal (New York); Aug 1, 2003. "But 'The Reckoning,' like a great many medieval melodramas before it, is a talky, sententious affair." A.O. Scott; Seeking Human Truths Through the Stage; The New York Times; Mar 5, 2004. This week's theme: contranyms, words with opposite meanings. X-Bonus What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. -Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1672-1719)

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