Friday, July 3, 2015

Word of the Day

agog
\uh-GOG\
adjective
1. highly excited by eagerness, curiosity, anticipation, etc.
adverb
1. in a state of eager desire; excitedly.

Quotes
She was as adventurous, as imaginative, as agog to see the world as he was. But she was not sent to school.
-- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929

Origin
Agog may come from the Middle French en gogues meaning "in jest." It entered English in the mid-1400s.

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