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Word of the Day for Thursday, July 2, 2009vagary \VAY-guh-ree; vuh-GER-ee\, noun: An extravagant, erratic, or unpredictable notion, action, or occurrence. Her words are a dreadful reminder that much of life's consequences are resultant of vagary and caprice, dictated by the tragedy of the ill-considered action, the irrevocable misstep, the irrevocable moment in which a terrible wrong can seem the only right. Weather is one of the vagaries of blue-water racing, ruling the sport like a malicious jester. This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama. Vagary comes from Latin vagari, "to stroll about, to wander," from vagus, "wandering." | |||||||||
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