Today was not an extraordinary day when compared with winning the lottery, and having an election go in your favor, but it was a good day in much smaller regards. I got a GIANT bull frog out of the pool this morning when I was cleaning the skimmer. The frog though he could out smart me, but it appears that I am smarter than the average bull frog that does not have enough sense NOT to jump in the pool. Mission accomplished. AND, I took 69.6 pounds of coins to the credit union to be cashed in. It took a few trips from the coin machine to the car and back, but it was kind of interesting. It turns out that a pound of coins translates in to about $13. And I got some change back from the deal. I think I had been saving those coins for about two years, so it was fun having some free 'walk-around' money!Cunctation -- Noun. delay. Henry couldn't attribute the cunctation of his reply to his editor to anything but his natural tendency to procrastinate.
Did You Know? Cunctation isn't the only word we have from the Latin cunctari, which means "to hesitate." There are the adjectives cunctatory, cunctations, and cunctative ("tending to delay") and the noun cunctator ("one who delays"). Without hesitation, we will tell you that although cunctation has been around for over 400 years, all these words are pretty rare-but that's not to say that no one ever uses them now. They do turn up occasionally: "The FAA has a cunctative approach to supervising airline security," wrote Playboy magazine in 2002. So, if you delight in hard words, don't forever put off using one of these vocabulary-boosting terms.
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