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Nov 27, 2012
This week's themeIllustrated words This week's words bursiform concinnity lachrymal wassail phantasmagoria Illustration: Leah Palmer Preiss
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with Anu Gargconcinnity
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
noun: A harmonious arrangement of various parts.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin concinnare (to put in order). Earliest documented use: 1531.
USAGE:
"There was a moment of inner peace in which belief and doubt merged into
a strangely comforting concinnity." Thomas Dulski; To Emily on the Ecliptic; Analog Science Fiction & Fact; Jul/Aug 2004. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence. -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
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