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Aug 4, 2021
This week’s themeWords to describe people This week’s words verigreen raffish clamant draggletailed faitour A Word A Day the book ”Delightful.” -The New York Times Buy it in your country A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Gargclamant
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
adjective: 1. Loud. 2. Demanding attention; urgent. ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin clamare (to cry out). Earliest documented use: 1639.
USAGE:
“Hanging out of the other window, he beheld the clamant Baron urging
the guard with frenzied entreaty.” J. Storer Clouston; Count Bunker; Blackwood; 1906. See more usage examples of clamant in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are
those that tell of saddest thought. -Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (4 Aug
1792-1822)
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