This week’s theme
Look Ma, no affix!

This week’s words
gruntled
ept
ruth
reck
descript


This week’s comments
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Next week’s theme
Minced oaths

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PRONUNCIATION:

(di-SKRIPT)

MEANING:

adjective: Having distinctive features or qualities.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin descriptus, past participle of describere (to describe), from de- (off) + scribere (to write). Earliest documented use: 1665. The opposite, more common affixed form is nondescript.

USAGE:

“And he had been staring at her that day, although nothing about her had been very descript until he got up close, and then everything was.”
Jennie Shortridge; Love Water Memory; Gallery Books; 2014.

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