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Word of the Day for Saturday, May 28, 2011vertiginous \vur-TIJ-uh-nuhs\, adjective: 1. Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy. But up close the building is impossibly steep, vertiginous, hostile. He did us no good when, without permission, he entered Tibetan air space and flew up over central China, explaining that it was impossible to comply with the authorities' instructions to land because of the vertiginous mountain terrain. . . .the bouldery ruins of vertiginous cliffs pounded and lashed by the fury of wind and water. Vertiginous derives from Latin vertigo, "a turning round, a whirling round; giddiness," from vertere, "to turn." Related words include reverse, "to turn back (re-) or around"; subvert, "to undermine" (from sub-, "under" + vertere -- at root "to turn from under, to overturn"); and versus, "against" (from versus, "turned towards," hence "facing, opposed," from the past participle of vertere). | |||||||||
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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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