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May 18, 2018

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Words made with combining forms

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carcinogenic

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with Anu Garg

carcinogenic

PRONUNCIATION:

(kahr-si-nuh-JEN-ik)

MEANING:

adjective: Capable of causing cancer.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek carcino- (cancer) + -genic (producing). Earliest documented use: 1916.

USAGE:

“She preached sound diet and positive attitude, preferred to eat crap, smoke and drink, and actively wanted something else carcinogenic to do, like sunbathing.”
Frances Fyfield; Safer Than Houses; Little, Brown; 2005.

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

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

A book of verses underneath the bough, / A jug of wine, a loaf of bread -- and thou / Beside me singing in the wilderness -- / Oh, wilderness were paradise enow! -Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, and physician (18 May 1048-1131)

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