This week’s theme
Words having all five vowels

This week’s words
affectious
camelious
adventious
majestious
quodlibetal

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(ad-VEN-shuhs)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Coming from outside: not inherent or native.
2. Happening by chance.
3. Appearing in an unusual or abnormal place.

ETYMOLOGY:

A variant spelling of adventitious, from Latin adventicius (coming from without), from advenire (to arrive), from ad- (toward) + venire (to come). Earliest documented use: 1633.

USAGE:

“For the Greenies, the arrival of Musketaquid was almost adventious; they had never known Allston Brighton to have a visitor.”
Randy Steinberg; Concord; AuthorHouse; 2001.

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