

Mar 7, 2018 This week’s theme

Five words that use all letters of the alphabet



This week’s words

expergefaction

vaquero

azymous

whipjack

vendible



Matzo/matza (unleavened bread) Photo: Jonathunder/Wikimedia Five words that use all letters of the alphabet A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg



azymous PRONUNCIATION: (A-zi-muhs)

MEANING: adjective: Unleavened; unfermented.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin azymus (unleavened, uncorrupted), Greek azumos (unleavened). Earliest documented use: 1728.

USAGE: “An oval plate stood there, with three fine white azymous loaves, placed on a piece of linen.”

Anne Catherine Emmerich; The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ; 1833.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. -Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926)





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