A Word a Day by Anu Garg
Author:Anu Garg [Garg, Anu]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780471230328
Amazon: B007CJ6NGC
Goodreads: 755859
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2002-09-30T23:00:00+00:00
pervious (PUR-vee-uhs)
adjective 1. Permeable; open to passage or penetration. 2. Open to suggestions, arguments, reason, change, and so forth.
From Latin pervius, from per- (through) + via (way).
• In the end, the company CEO proved pervious to reason and dropped his pet project of manufacturing pure drinking water for sale in superstores.
vincible (VIN-suh-buhl)
adjective Defeatable; capable of being overcome.
From Latin vincibilis, from vincere (to overcome).
• “They had a lead of 21-0 and still the Eagles, who were both pervious and vincible, beat them, 35-30.”
—Steve Jacobson, making ept use of the two words, in Newsday (October 4, 1993)
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