This week's theme
There's a word for it

This week's words
escutcheon
crural
acedia
decant
quinary

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PRONUNCIATION:

(KROOR-uhl)

MEANING:

adjective: Relating to the leg.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin crus (leg). Earliest documented use: 1599.

USAGE:

"She could tell by his occasional grimace that her massage of his crural muscle above the patella on his right knee still caused him discomfort."
Kenneth Johnson; V: The Second Generation; Tor; 2008.

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