[Ads-l] "A big academic word"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Prof. Eddie Glaude, Jr., of Princeton, humorously apologized to Joe and
Mika on MSNBC's _Morning Joe_ for using "a big academic word": _precarity_.


After bemused confessions of unfamiliarity, they all began using it.

Nearly a quarter million RGH's.

It means "precariousness" as applied to sociopolitical circumstances.

Evidently "precariousness" isn't good enough or specific enough - or maybe
it's too hard to say.

Not in OED.

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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