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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 these words both conversationally and in the written word.

Words For Today:  February 4, 2012

Ethereal

Relative

Consign

Ethereal

Light, airy, or tenuous.

Extremely delicate or refined.

Martha shows a rather ethereal attitude when it comes to speaking of her relationship with her mother. 

Relative

A person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage. 

Something dependent upon external conditions.

Having relation or connection.

She is a relative of mine.

I believe you have to consider that all things are relative when comparing the different varieties of tomatoes.

Consign

To hand over or deliver formally or officially.

To transfer to another's custody or charge.

To banish or set apart in one's mind. 

I have consistently supported that gallery by making a point to only consign by work with them.