This week’s theme
Contractions

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bolshie
lackadaisical
blitz
zounds
extrality

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Next week’s theme
Rodents

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(ek-STRAL-i-tee)

MEANING:

noun: Exemption from local laws: the privilege of living in a foreign country, but subject only to the home country’s jurisdiction.

ETYMOLOGY:

A contraction of extraterritoriality, from Latin extra- (outside) + territorium (land around a town), from terra (land). Earliest documented use: 1925.

USAGE:

“Numerous Americans ... went to great lengths to seek exemption from US jurisdiction, preferring to deal with the Chinese authorities; in the 1920s, American missionaries even asked the State Department to have extrality suspended -- without success.”
Lucian W. Pye; Recent Books on International Relations; Foreign Affairs (New York); Jan/Feb 2002.

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