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Word of the Day for Thursday, July 9, 2009fervid \FUR-vid\, adjective: 1. Heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm, etc. Over the last week, the Cubs opened their home season at Wrigley Field, and the city's Lyric Opera was presenting Richard Wagner's four-opera "Ring des Nibelungen," which meant that two of the world's most fervid fan bases were simultaneously encamped on opposite sides of the Chicago River. The words of fire that from his pen 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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