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The Word of the Day for July 9 is:

requisite \REK-wuh-zit\ adjective
: essential, necessary

Example sentence:
The menu had all the requisite summer cookout offerings: hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, and watermelon.

Did you know?
Acquiring an understanding of where today's word comes from won't require a formal inquiry. Without question, the quest begins with Latin "quaerere," which means "to ask" and is an ancestor of a number of English words, including "acquire," "require," "inquiry," "question," "quest," and, of course, "requisite." From "quaerere" came "requirere," meaning "to ask again." Repeated requests can express a need, and the past participle of "requirere," which is "requisitus," came to mean "needed" or "necessary." The English language acquired "requisite" when it was adopted into Middle English back in the 1400s.

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