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Word of the Week: Scintilla

02.25.2007

scin?til?la [sin-til-uh]

–noun
1. a minute particle; spark; trace: not a scintilla of remorse.

[Origin: 1685–95; < L: spark ]

In A Sentence
"After the witness's frank and bruising testimony, neither my brother nor I was left with a scintilla of doubt that the defendant was guilty."

- "The Word of the Day for February, 18 2007", Merriam Webster Online

 

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, ? Random House, Inc. 2006.

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