Word of the Day

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10

Dilatory

[DIL-ə-tohr-ee]Part of speech: adjective

Origin: latin, 15th century

• Intending to cause delay
• Wasting time or procrastinating

Examples of Dilatory in a sentence

• His client was late, so the lawyer pulled out dilatory tactics to stall.
• Cleaning his room was just a dilatory effort to avoid studying.

About Dilatory

Surely you’re familiar with procrastination. Maybe you’re even learning new words as a method of procrastination. Now you can feel good about your delays because you’ve learned a new adjective for these tricks — dilatory.

Did you Know?

You might think the definitions of "dilatory" and "delay" are similar, but there’s actually no etymological relation between the two. Instead, "dilatory" can be traced to the Latin "dilatorius," meaning "extending or putting off time."

Christmas Round Robin

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If you've missed the first two chapters of this year's round robin, you can find them using these links.

Chapter 1 by glennagirlChapter 2 by ssclassof56

The 12 Days of UNCLE- Christmas Round Robin Chapter 3

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Chapter 1 by glennagirl
Chapter 2 by ssclassof56

The team of Slate and Dancer immediately returned to Nice as instructed, entering the dark antique shop. Just as with Solo, the proprietor gave no response to the agent’s acknowledgement, just a slight nod of their heads to him and nothing more.

Once they were sure the coast was clear they stepped through aged wardrobe to a small part of the hidden world of UNCLE that lay behind it.

“That thing is so ghastly,”April remarked as they stepped into the bright light of reception, if one could call chrome and gunmetal that, and she supposed it was in comparison to the dark, dinginess of the wardrobe.

‘It’s more like Alice down the bloody rabbit hole is you ask me luv,” Mark whispered, though his comment was only heard only by his partner

“Which will ensure that no one will ever want to buy it Mademoiselle Dancer,” the receptionist handed them their security badges.” “Monsieur Bouchard awaits you, second office on the right.”

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