It's Merriam-Webster's word of the day for November 3rd.

Today's word is cursory, spelled C-U-R-S-O-R-R-Y.

Cursary is an adjective.

Something described as cursory has been done or made quickly. Here's the word used

in a sentence from service, a novel by Sarah Gilmartin. After a few cursory questions, one of the

owners offered me the job on the spot, and I said yes without asking about the pay, which

caused the other one to laugh and hit the table with his hand

and promise to teach me a thing or two about the real world.

Let your cursor linger long enough on our pages, and you'll be surprised at how much you can

quickly discover. Consider the entry for the word cursory, for example. If you surmise after a mere cursory glance

that there's not much to know about a word with a single sense, that is hastily done or made,

you may want to hold your horses. There's so much to find, including a helpful guide to choosing

synonyms of cursory, such as shallow and superficial, that also

describe things done with a lack of attention or care. There's also an etymology section where

one learns that cursory was borrowed from the medieval Latin adjective corsorius, which described

things that were swift or related to running, and which in turn

comes from the Latin noun cursor, meaning runner. This fact may prompt you to jog over to the entries

of other cursor descendants, such as cursorial, meaning adapted to or involving running, as in cursorial insects, and, well,

the word cursor itself. With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.