RIGOR
What does "RIGOR" mean?
Strict thoroughness, exactness, or severity in standards, method, or conditions.
Meanings
- Strict precision and thoroughness, especially in thought or method. The study was praised for its statistical rigor.
- Harsh, demanding, or severe conditions. The settlers endured the rigors of a northern winter.
- A sudden feeling of cold with shivering, often accompanying a fever. A rigor swept over the patient as the fever spiked. technical
Did you know?
- Rigor mortis - the post-death stiffening - is the same Latin word as academic 'rigor'; both descend from 'rigere', to be stiff, so intellectual rigor and a stiffening corpse are literal cousins.
Word origin
From Latin 'rigor' (stiffness, hardness), from 'rigere', to be stiff; the medical 'rigor' (shivering chill) and 'rigor mortis' (stiffness of death) keep the literal Latin sense.
Remember it
RIGOR shares its root with RIGID and rigor mortis - all about being stiff, whether a proof or a posture.
A little poem
It strips the easy answer to the bone,
demands the step you skipped, the proof you owe-
and leaves you with a truth you've truly known.
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Wordplay
- The professor demanded rigor in every proof. The students found it deadly - it was, in a sense, mortis.
What it teaches
Rigor is uncomfortable on purpose; it is the friction that keeps a true thing from sliding into a wished-for one.
Quick facts
What does RIGOR mean?
Strict thoroughness, exactness, or severity in standards, method, or conditions.
Is RIGOR a valid word?
Yes — RIGOR is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is RIGOR?
RIGOR has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does RIGOR come from?
From Latin 'rigor' (stiffness, hardness), from 'rigere', to be stiff; the medical 'rigor' (shivering chill) and 'rigor mortis' (stiffness of death) keep the literal Latin sense.
What can RIGOR teach us?
Rigor is uncomfortable on purpose; it is the friction that keeps a true thing from sliding into a wished-for one.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.