6/14/11

Immoderate


Pronounced:
<im-mod-er-rate>
Excessive – Extravagant - Unreasonable


My use:
Yesterday the rain was immoderate.  Today the sun is shinning.

Literary use:
By Mary Howden
His humor was a delight, but the Neophyte from the beginning rigidly suppressed her tendency to immoderate mirth.



Memory trick:
im - moderate
im (means) not
moderate (means) average
not average


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