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Old 09-16-2011, 05:11 PM
Madfish Madfish is offline
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Originally Posted by Ali Fish View Post
tentative [ˈtɛntətɪv]
adj
1. provisional or experimental; conjectural
2. hesitant, uncertain, or cautious
[from Medieval Latin tentātīvus, from Latin tentāre to test]
Thanks for that.

Saved me the trouble of looking it up. Am I the only non-native english speaker who hasn't heard of that word before? And I even had latin at school...
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