Peter Sokolowski
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1,510 appearances
96 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2d ago
Peter Sokolowski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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To circumscribe something is to limit its range or activity.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Time.
A mid-credits scene that shows Santos and Mel at a karaoke bar performing a duet might seem to be a throwaway, but it's more like a glimmer of a happy ending.
By blowing off steam together, Mel is forming an independent identity, and Santos is finding a healthy outlet for her anger.
This could be the first step for both of them towards escaping a life circumscribed by work.
To circumscribe something is to limit its range or activity, but there is no circumscribing the range of influence the Latin ancestors of the word circumscribe have had.
Circumscribe comes via Middle English from the Latin verb circum scribere, which roughly translates as to draw a circle around, which in turn comes from circum, meaning circle, and scribere, meaning to write or draw.
Among the many descendants of kirkum are the words circuit, circumference, circumnavigate, circumspect, circumstance, and circumvent.
Scribrae gave us such words
as scribe and scribble, as well as ascribe, describe, and transcribe, among others.
With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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Today's word is vacuous, spelled V-A-C-U-O-U-S.
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Vacuous is an adjective.
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It's a formal word indicating a lack of thought, intelligence, or substance.
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Here's the word used in a
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is an artifact of its time, but it had its place in moving the arc of history and still does.
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As you might have guessed, the word vacuous shares the same root as the word vacuum.
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Both come from the
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the oldest meaning of which is an empty space, as well as the verb evacuate, originally meaning to empty of contents.
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