It's the Word of the Day podcast for November 9th.
Today's word is in-co-it, also pronounced in-co-ate, and spelled I-N-C-H-O-A-T-E.
In-co-it is an adjective.
It's a formal synonym of the word vague that describes something that is not completely formed or developed yet.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Cellophane Bricks,
a life in visual culture by Jonathan Lethem.
Graffiti inserts itself like the blade of a knife between creation and destruction,
between publicity and furtiveness, between word and image, cartoon, icon, and hieroglyph.
That its meaning is inchoate is part of the point.
If you can explain it, you probably don't understand.
The word in Coet is most often used to describe something that is not or not yet completely formed or developed.
As a more formal word than its synonym, vague,
it's sure to add pizzazz to any conversation,
but only if you start working on pronouncing it correctly.
The first two letters of in Coet do what you'd expect, exactly what the word in, I-N, does.
However, The Coet in Incoet does not share the first sound of chair,
nor does it rhyme with the word Oat, O-A-T.
Instead, it shares the first sound of the word cat and rhymes with the word poet.
Incoet came to English in the 16th century from the Latin adjective Incohatus,
meaning only begun unfinished,