Sunday, November 25, 2018

sequacious \sih-KWAY-shus\ adjective

• intellectually servile

"Sequacious" is formed from the Latin "sequac-," or "sequax" (which means "inclined to follow" and comes from "sequi," "to follow") and the English "-ious." The original and now archaic meaning of "sequacious" was "inclined to follow" or "subservient." Although that meaning might as easily describe someone who willingly dropped into line behind a war leader, or who was unusually compliant or obedient in any sense, the concept gradually narrowed into the image of someone who blindly adopts ideas without much thought. Labeling a person "sequacious" is not very complimentary, and implies a slavish willingness to adopt a thought or opinion.

Wiggins

• The state of being uncomfortable or freaked out.

I want to go home, this place gives me the wiggins.

History

• Hollywood Ten: screenwriters were blacklisted by producers for being suspected Communists (1947)
   The Star Wars Ewok Adventure aired on the ABC Sunday Night Movie. (1984)
• Iran-contra affair: arms-sales scandal blew open; US National Security Council aide Oliver North was fired for planning to ship arms secretly to Iran (1986)
• Elián González: 6-year-old Cuban émigré was rescued by fishermen off Florida's coast, sparking a political asylum/child custody battle (1999)
• Department of Homeland Security: was signed into law by George W. Bush; Tom Ridge was named the first department head (2002)

Birthdays

• Andrew Carnegie 1835
  
• Carry Nation 1846
• Virgil Thomson 1896
• Joe DiMaggio (MLB) 1914
• Augusto Pinochet (Chili) 1915
• Ricardo Montalban 1920
• Etta Jones 1928
• Nat Adderley 1931
• Kathryn Crosby 1933
• Matt Clark 1936
• Percy Sledge 1940
• Tracey Walter 1942
• Ben Stein 1944
• Bob Lind (Elusive Butterfly) 1944
• Bev Bevan (Electric Light Orchestra) 1946
• Jonathan Kaplan 1947
• John Larroquette 1947
• Amy Grant 1960
• John F. Kennedy, Jr. 1960
• Bernie Kosar (NFL) 1963
• Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees) 1964
• Dougray Scott 1965
• Stacy Lattisaw 1966
• Deborah Wells 1968 t3h pr0n
• Erick Sermon 1968
• Jill Hennessey 1968
• Christina Applegate 1971