Today’s Words That Work: Adipose

Adipose (AD-uh-pohs) — from the Latin for “lard” — is another way of saying fatty; consisting of, resembling, or relating to fat.

Example (as used by Elizabeth Royte in a New York Times review of Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light by Jane Brox): “In the Middle Ages, the rich… were enjoying the clear and steady flames of beeswax candles, while the rest of the world still squinted into the grimy light of whatever adipose matter lay at hand, whether rendered from manatees, alligators, whales, sheep, oxen, bison, deer, or coconuts.”