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Miscellaneous words



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cogent

praxis

conterminous

aurorean

cenobite



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aurorean PRONUNCIATION: (o-ROR-ee-uhn, o-ROHR-)

MEANING: adjective: Of or belonging to the dawn.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin aurora (dawn, goddess of the dawn). Earliest documented use: 1820.

USAGE: "The moon shone resplendently above us -- its splendid aureola seemed suffused with stolen aurorean light."

Pietros Maneos; The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos; Aesthete Press; 2012.

See more usage examples of aurorean in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.



A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. -Harry Crews, novelist and playwright (1935-2012)





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