This week’s theme
Adverbs

This week’s words
deasil
tantivy
fain
piecemeal
widdershins

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PRONUNCIATION:

(fayn)

MEANING:

adverb:	1. Willingly; gladly.
	2. Rather.
adjective:	1. Pleased.
	2. Obliged.
	3. Eager.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old English faegen (glad). Earliest documented use: 888.

USAGE:

“Now I would fain work, but am unable to.”
Henrik Ibsen (Translation: Edmund Gosse & William Archer); Hedda Gabler; Scribner; 1909.

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

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