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Word of the Day for Tuesday, July 27, 2010nitid \NIT-id\, adjective: Bright; lustrous. Intolerably, I dreamt of an exiguous and nitid labyrinth: in the center was a water jar; my hands almost touched it, my eyes could see it, but so intricate and perplexed were the curves that I knew I would die before reaching it. "What!" exclaimed Sir Norfolk, almost shuddering at the inadvertence he had committed; "a waiting-man in such costly and nitid attire." Nitid is related to the Latin nitidus, "glistening." | |||||||||
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