This week’s theme
Words to describe people

This week’s words
verigreen
raffish
clamant
draggletailed
faitour

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PRONUNCIATION:

(KLAY-mant, KLAM-uhnt)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Loud.
2. Demanding attention; urgent.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin clamare (to cry out). Earliest documented use: 1639.

USAGE:

“Hanging out of the other window, he beheld the clamant Baron urging the guard with frenzied entreaty.”
J. Storer Clouston; Count Bunker; Blackwood; 1906.

See more usage examples of clamant in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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