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May 17, 2013
This week's themeVerbs This week's words ensconce equivocate petrify impute exscind This week's comments AWADmail 568 Next week's theme Words coined after mountains and hills 
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with Anu Gargexscind
PRONUNCIATION:
(ek-SIND)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To cut out or off.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin exscindere, from ex- (out) + scindere (to cut). Ultimately
from the Indo-European root skei- (to cut or split), which also gave
us excise, schism, ski, shin, scienter,
and adscititious.
Earliest documented use: 1662.
USAGE:
"The knife skipped off the stone and almost exscinded Shih Te's index finger." Alexander Goldstein; The Foundling; Trafford; 2009. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom. -William James, psychologist and philosopher (1842-1910)
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