This week’s theme
Homophones

This week’s words
littoral
ocellated
aweigh
euthanasia
rawky

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(uh-WAY)

MEANING:

adjective, adverb: Just clear of the bottom (used for a ship’s anchor).

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old English wegan (to move or weigh). Earliest documented use: 1606.

USAGE:

“There were passengers on the wharf observing the loading of the ship’s supplies and cargo but the order ‘anchors aweigh’ was still twelve hours away.”
Danny B. Butler; Madeleine, Daughter of the King; iUniverse; 2012.

“Moreover, there was no way of blocking it from escaping to the sea, and no ship afloat on this coast that could catch them once they were aweigh.”
Skye Smith; The Hoodsman; Skye Smith; 2019.

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

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