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Today's word is tenuous, spelled T-E-N-U-O-U-S. Tenuous is an adjective.

Something described as tenuous is flimsy, weak, or uncertain. Here's the word used in a sentence from the verge. While more non-screen-based interactive technology could be an antidote to our screen-obsessed

society, it's an extremely tenuous link to more human interaction. Lean into the history

of tenuous, and you'll find that the word comes to English

from the Latin adjective tenuis, meaning fine, drawn, thin, narrow, or slight, and is a relative

of the word thin. Like that more familiar word, tenuous has a wide array of meanings.

It can describe a literal thinness as in a silkworm's tenuous threads,

or rarity, the opposite of density, as in a tenuous fluid,

or it can describe things that are figuratively thin or flimsy.

If one team in a game has a tenuous lead, either team still has a chance at winning. If there is only a tenuous connection

between two events, those events are likely unrelated. With your word of the day, I'm Peter

Sokolowski.

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