This week’s theme
Words related to bones

This week’s words
bred-in-the-bone
ossify
bonehead
Jell-O
bareboned

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Next week’s theme
Words related to books

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(BAYR-bohnd)

MEANING:

adjective: Lean; spare; gaunt.

ETYMOLOGY:

From bare-bone (a lean person), from Old English baer (bare) + ban (bone). Earliest documented use: 1600.

USAGE:

“It’s possible that we are witnessing a transition of communication, an evolution of the English language from a complex system of grammatical structure to a more basic, bareboned approach to writing.”
Mike Cottrill; Proper Communications Skills a Key to Success; Waterloo Region Record (Kitchener, Canada); Apr 16, 2012.

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