sporadic: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Advertisement      Word of the Day for Tuesday, April 25, 2006   sporadic \spuh-RAD-ik\, adjective: Occurring singly, or occasionally, or in scattered instances.   Throughout the early years of Kelly's life, out of guilt as much as out of affection, she suspected, her father would make sporadic reappearances, make ever more incompetent attempts to be a good father to her and a good partner to her mother, before leaving again. -- Geoff Nicholson, Female Ruins The land is desperately overpopulated, and the thin soil is so eroded that it can only sustain scattered groups of scrawny cattle or sheep and sporadic crops of maize. -- Anthony Sampson, Mandela: The Authorized Biography In most courses he received a simple Pass, a grade designed for bright students with a history of sporadic attendance or other problems. -- Paul Mariani, The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane Sporadic derives from Medieval Latin sporadicus, scattered, from Greek sporadikos, from sporas, sporad-, scattered like seed. Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for sporadic   Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help   Please visit our Sponsors Gamefly FREE game trials! Careerbuilder Launch a new career Rosettastone Language Learning WorldBookStore Biggest sale ever on now FREE shipping too!   What's another word for thesaurus? Enrich your vocabulary at Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: news-and-stuff@arconati.us Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-6670908-4826904R@lists.lexico.com © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. 65 Pine Ave, #319 Long Beach, CA 90802