It's the word of the day for October 14th.
Today's word is taciturn spelled T-A-C-I-T-U-R-N.
Taciturn is an adjective.
It's a formal word that describes someone who tends to be quiet or who tends to speak infrequently.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the world according to Joan Didion by Evelyn MacDonald.
Joan Didion looks straight at the camera with her fist curled in front of her mouth,
as if to indicate it is through her hands that the taciturn thinker speaks.
Even if you consider yourself a person of few words, taciturn is a good one to keep in your pocket.
If for no other reason, then it's an efficient way to describe your own particular deportment.
While ramblers ramble and babblers babble, the taciturn among us turn things down a notch,
preferring to keep mum rather than add their voices to the verbal hubbub.
Taciturn traces back ultimately to the Latin verb tacere, meaning to be silent,
while English users were quicker to adopt other tacere descendants,
such as the adjective tacit, meaning expressed without words or implied,
in the 1600s, and even the noun taciturnity in the 1400s.
Taciturn wasn't on anyone's lips until the 1700s.
With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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