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Today's Word "sporadic"

Occurring singly or occasionally on

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sporadic \spuh-RAD-ik\ (adjective) - Occurring singly, or occasionally, or in scattered instances.

"The panoply of personages gathered at the head of the hall formed an impressive sight. At the base of the Imperial dais, the High Priests and Priestesses of the Twenty Gods of the Higher Heaven and the Twenty God of the Lower Heaven stood in full regalia." -- Raymond E. Feist, Janny Wurts, 'Mistress of the Empire'

 

Sporadic derives from Medieval Latin sporadicus, scattered, from Greek sporadikos, from sporas, sporad-, scattered like seed.


 

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