dictionary.jpg

 Words To Go is a blog for folks looking to expand and improve their everyday vocabulary.  Each day, three new words will be featured with their definitions and examples of their use.

Make a commitment to use the words both conversationally and in the written word.

Words For Today:  January 19, 2012

Obtuse

Fiduciary

Inanimate

Obtuse

Not quick or alert in perception, feeling or intellect.  Not sensitive or observant.

Not sharp, acute, or pointed; blunt in form.

Indistinctly felt or perceived.

I really thought  Jane's obtuse attitude was less than I expected. 

Fiduciary

A person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.

Pertaining to the relation between a fiduciary and his or her principal.

Of, based on, or in the nature of trust and confidence. 

Depending on public confidence for value or currency.

I am unable to fulfill your request because of my fiduciary responsibility to James. 

Inanimate

Lifeless.

Spiritless; sluggish; dull.

When I visited her at the nursing home, she seemed to hold no emotion, almost inanimate in nature.