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Mar 6, 2023

This week’s theme
Unusual synonyms

This week’s words
interpunction
exuviate
cyesis
cogitate
blatteroon

Church parking
Only violators will be Baptized.

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Previous week’s theme
Nouns that are also verbs

A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

What does a Tyrannosaurus eat for breakfast? I don’t know, but I do know what a Thesaurus likes. Synonym Toast Crunch.

And that’s what we are serving this week. Some crunchy synonyms. What’s a synonym for the word love? You may be able to give one or more synonyms for “love” and other words, but chances are you have never thought about a synonym for the word punctuation.

This week we’ll fill this and other deep chasms in your verbal repertoire with uncommon synonyms.

interpunction

PRONUNCIATION:

(in-tuhr-PUNGK-shuhn)

MEANING:

noun:
1. Punctuation.
2. A punctuation mark.
3. The insertion of punctuation marks in a text.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin inter- (between) + punctum (dot, point). Earliest documented use: 1617.

USAGE:

“In one continuous plethoric outburst, uninterrupted of course by any form of interpunction, he expresses the universally present yet ever unsatisfiable desire for wholeness.”
Martinus Arnoud Bakker; Book Review; World Literature Today (Norman, Oklahoma); Winter 1994.

“Our life is full of interpunctions, or commas; death is but the period or full point.”
Thomas Jackson; Maran Atha; A. Maxey; 1657.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. -Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (6 Mar 1475-1564)

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