Word of the Day for Thursday, July 9, 2009
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fervid \FUR-vid\, adjective:
fervid \FUR-vid\, adjective:
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1. Heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm, etc.
1. Heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm, etc.
2. Burning; glowing; intensely hot.
The B.O.'s fervid promotion of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 and keeping the global temperature from rising 2 degrees centigrade is ill-conceived, not feasible, sophomoric, naive, without any detailed plan, and will only hurt the world's economy!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Fervid comes from Latin fervidus "glowing, burning, vehement," from fervere "to boil, glow." The figurative sense of "impassioned" is from 1656.
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