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Word of the Day for Thursday, June 23, 2011jujitsu \joo-JIT-soo\, noun: 1. The ability to accomplish a task with no apparent effort or resistance. She stared at me as though I were some kind of bizarre math whiz, and she feared I was about to do some jujitsu calculus on her. Edmund has always had a way of turning things around on their head, practicing his own brand of moral jujitsu, Claire's holy zeal for humanity in the abstract! Jujitsu comes from the Japanese martial art of the same name, with the word being a combination of ju, "soft," and jitsu, "technique." | |||||||||
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  Wednesday is named for a mix of two very different gods? Who are they?The name Wednesday derives from two mighty but distinct�gods. The Old English word for Wednesday indicates that the day was named for the Germanic god Woden. In Romance languages, the name is derived from the Roman god Mercury. (For example, Wednesday is mercredi in French and miercuri in Romanian.) Woden (also known as Odin)�and Mercury... | |||||||||
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