{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY February 25, 2019---impetus

WORD OF THE DAY February 25, 2019

impetus    noun | IM-puh-tus     Definition   1 a : a driving force : impulse   b : incentive, stimulus   c : stimulation or encouragement resulting in increased activity   2 : the property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its mass and its motion — used of bodies moving suddenly or violently to indicate the origin and intensity of the motion   Scroll down for more about impetus      TRENDING NOW: crosshair feckless emergency national emergency SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 2/22/19       'Minion' — Video Word of the Day 2/22/2019     'Hoopla' — Video Word of the Day 2/21/2019       'Obsequious' — Video Word of the Day 2/20/2019         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   What did you just call me?! A Quiz   Never be caught off guard     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   You already have plenty of incentive to learn the origin of impetus, so we won't force the point. Impetus comes from Latin, where it means "attack or assault"; the verb impeterewas formed by combining the prefix in- with petere, meaning "to go to or seek." Peterealso gives us other words suggesting a forceful urging or momentum, such as appetite, perpetual, and centripetal. Impetus describes the kind of force that encourages an action ("the impetus behind the project") or the momentum of an action already begun ("the meetings only gave impetus to the rumors of a merger").     Examples of IMPETUS   The high salary and generous benefits package were impetus enough to apply for the job.   "Several legislators who spoke at last week's workshop cited a recent series by the Post & Courier of Charleston as the impetus for this year's focus on education." — Kirk Brown, The Greenville (South Carolina) News, 9 Jan. 2019   Word Family Quiz   Fill in the blanks to complete an adjective that is believed to be derived from Latin petere (meaning "to seek") and means "likely to have or produce good results"? p _ _ p _ _ i _ us.   VIEW THE ANSWER           WORD OF THE YEAR 2018     Justice + 10 more   Read why justice is our Word of the Year, plus lodestar, epiphany, pansexual, and 7 more top words!   SEE THE FULL LIST            MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES          TRENDING NOW          WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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