Welcome to another mind-bending installment of Word Woman's Weekly Work-Out! It's never too late to start working on retaining your mental faculties for the long run. Don't let the aging process get the jump on you -- keep your brain fit by doing crosswords, sudoku and learning new words! Here's the Word of the Week to get you started:
Philosophaster: (fi-los-uh-fas-tur) [noun] A pseudo-philosopher.
From Late Latin, philosopher + -aster, a pejorative suffix indicating something that is inferior or mimics another. -- "A Word A Day", Anu Garg, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New Jersey, 2003.
Example: When Professor Ordwell referred to his colleague in the Philosophy Department as a philosophaster in an interview for the college newspaper, it kicked off a battle of mudslinging the like of which was normally reserved for political campaigns and resulted in both parties losing their tenured positions.
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