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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--wax This week's theme: short words. wax (wax) verb intr. To increase, to grow, or to become. [From Old English weaxan. Ultimately from the Indo-European root aug- (increase) which is also the source of auction, authorize, inaugurate, augment, august, auxiliary, and nickname ("a nickname" is a splitting of the earlier "an ekename", literally, an additional name).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "The stars are out as we stand on Seven Mile Beach strapping on flippers while Adrian waxes enthusiastic." Carol Perehudoff; It's a Dogfish-eat-dogfish World at the bottom of the Sea; Toronto Star (Canada); Feb 16, 2008. X-Bonus A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. -Jose Bergamin, author (1895-1983)

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