This week’s theme
Anti-words

This week’s words
wrongous
eupnea
postposition
apocryphal
anergy

This week’s comments
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Next week’s theme
Homonyms

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(AN-uhr-jee)

MEANING:

noun:
1. Lack of energy.
2. The lack of an immune response to a foreign substance.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek an- (not) + ergon (work). Earliest documented use: 1890. The opposite of sense 1 is energy and the opposite of sense 2, allergy. Earliest documented use: 1890.

USAGE:

“The girl wondered if the man did not have the ability to react to the skin test because of anergy or inactivity of his immune system.”
William Lynes; 606 University; iUniverse; 2016.

See more usage examples of anergy in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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