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Word of the Day for Sunday, May 29, 2011toothsome \TOOTH-suhm\, adjective: 1. Pleasing to the taste; delicious; as, "a toothsome pie." Fleming was impressed not only by its taste but by its astonishing durability: Caudle's apple, after ten months in storage, was still toothsome and fragrant. Their topic, naturally: business niches that offer toothsome opportunities and comparatively limited competition. The myth, which Kournikova herself often takes great measures to perpetuate, is that she is an imposter on the WTA Tour, a toothsome starlet who simply uses the tennis court as a catwalk. Toothsome is derived from tooth + -some. | |||||||||
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  New law bans use of confusing words and sentences in government documents. Read the resultsOn October 13, 2010, President Obama signed into law the "United States Plain Writing Act of 2010." Thirteen years after President Clinton issued his own "Plain Writing in Government" memorandum, the revised set of guidelines states that by July of this year all government agencies must simplify the often perplexing bureaucratic jargon used in�documents produced... | |||||||||
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