

Jul 6, 2016 This week’s theme

Words with initial silent letters



This week’s words

knavery

wroth

knar

wrick

gnomic



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knar PRONUNCIATION: (nahr)

MEANING: noun: A knot on a tree or in wood.

ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English knarre. Earliest documented use: 1250.

USAGE: “When Gong Chun decided to make a teapot that resembled the knar of an old ginkgo tree, he did it by hand.”

Kuei-hsiang Lo; The Stonewares of Yixing; Hong Kong University Press; 1986.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. -Peter Singer, philosopher and professor (b. 6 Jul 1946)





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