Word of the Day for Friday October 8, 2004 histrionic \his-tree-ON-ik\, adjective: 1. Of or relating to actors, acting, or the theater; befitting a theater; theatrical. 2. Overly dramatic; deliberately affected. As late as 1895, when George Bernard Shaw was reviewing new London productions of scripts by Henry James and Oscar Wilde, he was dealing
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