word of the day
Feb. 24th, 2004 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quietannI get one of those "dictionary word of the day" emails, and today's word is quite relevant.
Word of the Day for Tuesday February 24, 2004
recrudescent \ree-kroo-DES-uhnt\, adjective:
Breaking out again after temporary abatement or suppression;
as, "a recrudescent epidemic."
Recrudescent derives from the present participle of Latin
recrudescere, "to bleed again, hence to break out again," from
re-, "again" + crudescere, from crudus, "bleeding, raw."
The state or condition of being recrudescent is recrudescence.
My monthly hormonal acne outbreak is recrudescent.
Word of the Day for Tuesday February 24, 2004
recrudescent \ree-kroo-DES-uhnt\, adjective:
Breaking out again after temporary abatement or suppression;
as, "a recrudescent epidemic."
Recrudescent derives from the present participle of Latin
recrudescere, "to bleed again, hence to break out again," from
re-, "again" + crudescere, from crudus, "bleeding, raw."
The state or condition of being recrudescent is recrudescence.
My monthly hormonal acne outbreak is recrudescent.
