word of the day "inchoate"
inchoate \in-KOH-it\, adjective:
1. In an initial or early stage; just begun. 2. Imperfectly formed or formulated.
You take on a project because of the feeling, perhaps inchoate, that it may in some way contribute to your deeper understanding of the larger-scale research program you have chosen as your life's work.
--Christopher Scholz, [3]Fieldwork: A Geologist's Memoir of the Kalahari
Inchoate comes from the past participle of Latin inchoare, alteration of incohare, "to begin."
1. In an initial or early stage; just begun. 2. Imperfectly formed or formulated.
You take on a project because of the feeling, perhaps inchoate, that it may in some way contribute to your deeper understanding of the larger-scale research program you have chosen as your life's work.
--Christopher Scholz, [3]Fieldwork: A Geologist's Memoir of the Kalahari
Inchoate comes from the past participle of Latin inchoare, alteration of incohare, "to begin."
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