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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 30, 2012


Clamor

Variant

Entrepreneurial

Clamor

A loud uproar, as from a crowd of people.

A vehement expression of desire or dissatisfaction.

Popular outcry.

The students were making quite the clamor over their team's winning touchdown.

Variant

Tending to change or alter; exhibiting variety or diversity.

Not agreeing or conforming; differing, especially from something of the general kind.

Not definitive, as a version of part of a text.

It is a variant of the policy and services I provided your father.

Entrepreneurial

A person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with risk.

An employer of productive labor; contractor.

Her efforts in business clearly displayed an entrepreneurial spirit.