impellent

 [im-pel-uhnt]  

im·pel·lent

   [im-pel-uhnt]
adjective
1.
impelling: an impellent power; an impellent cause.
noun
2.
something that impels; an impelling agency or force.

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Impellent is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
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Origin:
1610–20; < Latin impellent- (stem of impellēns), present participle of impellere to set in motion. See impel, -ent
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impel (ɪmˈpɛl)
 
—vb , -pels, -pelling, -pelled
1.  to urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
2.  to push, drive, or force into motion
 
[C15: from Latin impellere to push against, drive forward, from im- (in) + pellere to drive, push, strike]
 
im'pellent
 
—n, —adj

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