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Illustrated words



This week's words

bursiform

concinnity

lachrymal

wassail

phantasmagoria



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concinnity PRONUNCIATION: (kuhn-SIN-i-tee)

MEANING: noun: A harmonious arrangement of various parts.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin concinnare (to put in order). Earliest documented use: 1531.

USAGE: "There was a moment of inner peace in which belief and doubt merged into a strangely comforting concinnity."

Thomas Dulski; To Emily on the Ecliptic; Analog Science Fiction & Fact; Jul/Aug 2004.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence. -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)





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