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Word of the Day for Monday, May 18, 2009pernicious \pur-NISH-us\, adjective: Highly injurious; deadly; destructive; exceedingly harmful. Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods. But he said they were not thinkers but snobs, and their influence was pernicious. Racism should be condemned because its effects are pernicious. Pernicious comes from Latin perniciosus, "destructive, ruinous," from pernicies, "destruction, disaster, ruin," from per-, "through, thoroughly" + nex, nec-, "violent death." | |||||||||
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