

Mar 6, 2018 This week’s theme

Five words that use all letters of the alphabet



This week’s words

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vaquero

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vaquero PRONUNCIATION: (vah-KER-o)

MEANING: noun: A livestock herder: a cowboy.

ETYMOLOGY: From Spanish vaquero (cowboy), from vaca (cow), from Latin vacca. Earliest documented use: 1826.

USAGE:

Rudolfo Anaya; My Land Sings; HarperCollins; 2001.



See more usage examples of “‘Our steeds need to drink for the day ahead,’ the vaquero said.”Rudolfo Anaya;; HarperCollins; 2001.See more usage examples of vaquero in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day. -Gabriel García Márquez, novelist, journalist, Nobel laureate (6 Mar 1927-2014)





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