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Mar 20, 2013 This week's theme Contranyms This week's words secrete peruse second-guess discursive impregnable A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg second-guess PRONUNCIATION: (SEK-uhnd GES) MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To criticize an event with the benefit of hindsight. 2. To guess or predict. ETYMOLOGY: Probably a back-formation from second-guesser (in baseball, one who criticizes a play after the fact). Earliest documented use: 1941. USAGE: "Some managers become cross when they're second-guessed, but Bruce Bochy wasn't afraid to question himself after the team's loss." Clutch, Giants' Offense Stalls; San Jose Mercury News (California); Apr 7, 2007. "Trying to second-guess the Arsenal team that will play against Liverpool is no simple task." Sam Wallace; Arsenal Teenagers Face Baptism of Fire; Belfast Telegraph (Ireland); Aug 18, 2011. See more usage examples of second-guess in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. -Confucius, philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE)

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