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Word of the Day: Inchoate

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Inchoate: (pronounced ĭn-kō′ĭt, -āt) adjective

Being in a beginning or early stage; incipient.
Imperfectly formed or developed; disordered or incoherent.
Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete.

The would-be bomber's inchoate plans were discovered and thwarted by the FBI as he was assembling the components.


Bonus etymology:
Inchoate comes from inchoare, which means "to start work on" in Latin but translates literally as "to hitch up" (inchoare combines the prefix in- with the Latin noun cohum, which refers to the strap that secures a plow beam to a draft animal's yoke). The concept of this initial step toward the larger task of plowing a field explains how inchoate came to describe something (such as a plan or idea) in its early, not fully formed, stages of development.
 
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