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Word of the Day for Thursday, September 11, 2008evanescent \ev-uh-NES-unt\, adjective: Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; fleeting. The Pen which gives. . . permanence to the evanescent thought of a moment. Every tornado is a little different, and they are all capricious, evanescent and hard to get a fix on. The accidentally famous. . . may write books, appear on talk shows, and, in so doing, attract even greater public attention. This type of celebrity status, of course, is brittle and evanescent. Evanescent is from Latin evanescere, "to vanish," from e-, "from, out of" + vanescere, "to disappear," from vanus, "empty." | |||||||||
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