This week’s theme
Words to describe people

This week’s words
diversivolent
smatchet
mensch
unflappable
circumspect

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PRONUNCIATION:

(uhn-FLAP-uh-buhl)

MEANING:

adjective: Staying calm even in difficult circumstances.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Middle English flap (to beat or shake), probably of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1958.

USAGE:

“Nothing seemed to faze the unflappable Alvin.”
Margie House Neal; Hummingbird Memories; Xlibris; 2012.

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

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