Thursday, February 18, 2027
precocious
prih-KOH-shuhs, adjective
Developing abilities unusually early.
“A precocious ten-year-old corrected the museum plaque.”
Where precocious comes from
A gardening word first, for fruit that ripened before it was supposed to.
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