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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 are 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:  February 17, 2012


Strategic

Literary

Anathema

Strategic

Pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy.

Important in or essential to strategy.

The group's mission for the organization was strategic in nature.

Literary

Pertaining to or of the nature of books and writings.

Versed in or acquainted with literature.

Pertaining to authorship.

He is seen as one of the great literary minds.

Anathema

A person of thing detested or loathed.

A person or thing accursed or consigned to damnation.

A curse; execration.

That job was anathema to me because it would have caused great harm.