Word of the Day: PREPONDERANCE
Mass or majority
preponderance (adj) - superiority of weight, power, or numbers; the greater portion, amount, or bulk [pri-pon-der-uhns]
BREAKDOWN: PRE- (before) + PONDER (to weigh) + -ANCE (quality)
preponderant means greater in weight, force, or influence
to preponderate is to exceed in weight, power, or importance
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.” —Helen Keller
