pusillanimous

*****************************************************************
Looking for a flashier rhyme for "June" than "moon?"
Fine-tune and festoon with our new Rhyming Dictionary!  
http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/book.pl?rhym_pbk.htm&6
*****************************************************************

The Word of the Day for June 6 is:

pusillanimous   \pyoo-suh-LAN-uh-muss\   adjective
     : lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible 
timidity

Example sentence:
     The senator criticized his opponent in the election as 
being feeble, pusillanimous, and unwilling to fight for his 
beliefs.

Did you know?
     Do you know someone who has a small, weak spirit, someone 
whose reserve of inner strength is too small to draw from in 
times of danger and adversity? If so, you'll 
find "pusillanimous" to be the perfect descriptor for that 
person. The Latin roots of this derisive adjective 
are "pusillus," meaning "very small" (and related to "pusus," 
meaning "boy") and "animus," which means "spirit" and is the 
ancestor to many words in our language, including "animal" 
and "animate." "Pusillanimous" first appeared in English in the 
16th century, but it gained prominence in the 1970s when Vice 
President Spiro Agnew famously accused his ideological rivals 
of "pusillanimous pussyfooting."