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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 writing word.


Words For Today:  March 11, 2012

Lineage

Profligate

Tertiary

Lineage

Lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry or extraction.

The line of descendants of a particular ancestor.

The great thoroughbred Affirmed descended from  Secretariat's lineage.

Profligate

Utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.

Recklessly prodigal or extravagant.

It is beyond reason how someone identified as profligate was able to secure such a position of responsibility. 

Tertiary

Of the third order, rank, stage, formation.

George sits in the tertiary role within the hierarchy of the firm.