## Monday ### [[New Words Learnt]]: solicitude Care or concern for someone or something. "I was touched by his solicitude" ### [[New Words Learnt]]: dilatory slow to act. "he had been dilatory in appointing a solicitor" ## Tuesday ### [sic] I’ve been meaning to Google this for years whenever I stumbled upon it in a book. It means that there’s an error in the original source of a quote, and that it’s not an error by the person quoting it. GPT-4o: > In a book, "[sic]" is used to indicate that a quoted text contains an error or unusual phrase exactly as it appears in the original source. It shows that the error is not a transcription mistake but is part of the original text.