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The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience. 

-W.E.B. Du Bois, educator, civil rights activist, and writer (23 Feb 1868-1963)

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Todays Word

 

jactation

PRONUNCIATION:

(jak-TAY-shuhn) 

MEANING:

noun:
1. Boasting.
2. Involuntary bodily movements, such as tossing or twitching.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin jactation (tossing, boasting), from jactare (to throw, boast), frequentative of jacere (to throw). Earliest documented use: 1576. Also spelled as jactitation.

USAGE:

“The girls from the legal pools and the courthouse clerks stood out on the sidewalks [and] engaged in conceited jactation ... Most of the talk had little to do with actual facts.”
Patricia Hickman; Katrina’s Wings; Five Star; 2002.

“Amidst all the pain, and relentless jactation of his body, Laurel thought he could still hear the man.”
Emma Porter; The Fairy King; Xlibris; 2019.

See more usage examples of jactation in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

Todays Thought

There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard's vote. 

-David Foster Wallace, novelist, essayist, and short story writer (21 Feb 1962-2008)