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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 these words both conversationally and in the written word.

Words For Today:  May 2, 2012


Incorrigible

Personify

Recall

Incorrigible

Bad beyond correction or reform.
Impervious to constraints or punishment.
Firmly fixed; not easily changed.
Not easily swaayed or influenced.

It is his incorrigible behavior that has caused him to fail in the classroom.

Personify

To be an embodiment of something.
To embody a quality or idea in a real person or a concrete thing.

I like to believe that I personify the same type of leadership that she exhibits with her staff.

Recall

To bring back from memory; recollect.
To call back; summon to return.

The defense attorney will certainly recall Mr. James to the witness stand today.