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CUNCTATOR

“When I was in high school, in my junior year English class, we took a 30-word vocabulary test each week. I fell in love with the word cunctator because it sounded vulgar, but it means “procrastinator.” I’ve always put things off to the last minute.”

@eugene · Latin via Sanskrit

Found on Day 137

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