This will make a PERDURABLE impression!

Posted By on February 13, 2008

Word of the Day for Wednesday, February 13, 2008

perdurable \pur-DUR-uh-bul; pur-DYUR-\, adjective:

Very durable; lasting; continuing long.

Now when I saw this word this morning from dictionary.com my first thought was – I hope that MR. CLICKER’s popularity with the students that I substitute teach for is PERDURABLE, because he makes my day each day that I teach.

My SECOND thought was, why not just say LASTING or VERY DURABLE…..then I read the following, duh, if you are going to use ELABORATE words then PERDURABLE just fits right in…..look at the sentence below……WOW.  🙂

Have a COPACETIC day!

In her first book, Lisa See . . . tackles a family — her own — whose intricate genealogy, bravura entrepreneurship,

bitter adulteries and perdurable rivalries might have intimidated a lesser chronicler into euphemism.

— Elizabeth Tallent, “Chinese Roots”, New York Times, August 27, 1995

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