This week’s theme
There’s a word for it

This week’s words
neophobia
apanthropy
stultiloquy
argentocracy
squandermania

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(stuhl-TIL-uh-kwee)

MEANING:

noun: Foolish talk.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin stultus (foolish) + loqui (to speak). Earliest documented use: 1653.

USAGE:

“[Jacob Zuma] was so keen to impress on the audience his selflessness that he mentioned the word ‘perks’ a half-dozen times, and threw in the word ‘stakeholders’, without which no stultiloquy is complete.”
The Pained Trader; Global Capital (London, UK); Feb 22, 2018.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: