This week’s theme
Words that look one part of speech but are other

This week’s words
constitutional
commensurate
dialectic
curtal
niddering

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(dy-uh-LEK-tik)

MEANING:

noun: A discussion employed in investigating the truth of a thesis.
adjective: Relating to such a discussion.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek dia- (between) + legein (to speak). Earliest documented use: 1382.

USAGE:

“‘We must first go back to the idea of the dialectic, Prof.’
‘Ah, yes, we ended in the middle, or should I say the muddle, of the dialectic last week, didn’t we? This is in fact the nature of the dialectic, always in motion, surging forward and racing.’”
Namwali Serpell; The Old Drift; Hogarth Press; 2019.

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

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