Word of the Day with Danna Kiel

Here to help us expand our vocabulary is comedian, mother, actress, and chess aficionado, Danna Kiel. Danna, The Oracle of Comedy is the cure through her funny Video Shorts, Standup, Storytelling, Improv, Sketch, and characters.  Her Patreon-funded project, Funny Found Here will Entertain, Heal and Inform you for years. She can be found in just about every comedy room on Clubhouse as well.

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Today’s word of the day is “anfractuous“, which is evidence of one's qualifications or achievements.

Did you know: Plots and paths can be anfractuous. They twist and turn but do not break. Never mind that the English word comes ultimately from the Latin verb frangere, meaning "to break." (Frangere is also the source of fracture, fraction, fragment, and frail.) But one of the steps between frangere and anfractuous is Latin anfractus, meaning "coil, bend." The prefix an- here means "around." At first, anfractuous was all about ears and the auditory canal's anfractuosity, that is, its being curved rather than straight. Anfractuous has been around for centuries, without a break, giving it plenty of time to wind its way into other applications; e.g., there can be an anfractuous thought process or an anfractuous shoreline.

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