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Oct 20, 2017
This week’s themeWords made with combining forms This week’s words kleptomania stenophagous pantophobia hagiology endogenous This week’s comments AWADmail 799 Next week’s theme Coined words 
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with Anu Gargendogenous
PRONUNCIATION:
(en-DOJ-uh-nuhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Originating from within.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek endo- (inside, within) + -genous (producing). Earliest documented
use: 1830. The opposite is exogenous.
USAGE:
“Sudden change can result from endogenous factors, internal to the society.” Michael Flynn; In the Country of the Blind; Tor Books; 2001. See more usage examples of endogenous in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution
of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are
educated to personal initiative and adaptability. Otherwise, they will be
overwhelmed by the changes in which they are caught and whose significance
or connections they do not perceive. -John Dewey, philosopher,
psychologist, and educational reformer (20 Oct 1859-1952)
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