apoplectic
apoplectic \ap-uh-plek-tik\, adjective
1. Intense enough to threaten or cause a stroke.
2. Of or pertaining to apoplexy.
3. Having or inclined to apoplexy.
noun:
1. A person having or predisposed to apoplexy.
When Abie used to shout, Rebecca always used to make a joke that he was having one of his apoplectic fits.
-- Alan Grayson, Mile End
...four years, one recession and a host of battles ? over financial regulation and the nomination of Elizabeth Warren, over Dodd-Frank and the Buffett Rule ? have taken their toll. Some on Wall Street are apoplectic. One former supporter, Dan Loeb, compared Obama to Nero; the president?s enemies insinuated worse.
-- Nicholas Confessore, "Obama?s Not-So-Hot Date With Wall Street", The New York Times Magazine, May 2, 2012
Apoplectic stems from the Greek word apoplektik�s which meant "pertaining to stroke". It literally meant "struck down".
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aseptic
aseptic \uh-SEP-tik\, adjective
1. Free from the living germs of disease, fermentation, or putrefaction.
noun:
1. A product, as milk or fruit juice, that is marketed in an aseptic package or container.
2. Aseptics, (used with a singular verb) a system of packaging sterilized products in airtight containers so that
freshness is preserved for several months.
The development of aseptic packaging is so highly regarded in food industry circles that in 1983 members of the Institute of Food Technologists? voted it the number-one food innovation in the last fifty years.
-- Vince Staten, Can You Trust a Tomato in January?
He was taken to an aseptic, white barracks on the opposite bank of the Moldau.
-- Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
Aseptic was invented in the 1850s by chemists. It is based on the root septic meaning "infected."
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agita
agita \AJ-i-tuh\, noun
1. Agitation; anxiety.
2. Heartburn; indigestion.
And my being named after the patron saint of love, St. Valentine, when I've had nothing but agita in romance just makes it more painfully ironic.
-- Rosanna Chiofalo, Bellla Fortuna
I'm eighty-two years old and I don't need this agita in my life!
-- Rita Lakin, Getting Old Is Murder
Agita was coined in America in the 1980s. It comes from the Italian word agitare meaning "to bother."
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