This week’s theme
Words that result in another word when a single letter is prefixed

This week’s words
ovine
uberty
lection
rill
otic

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PRONUNCIATION:

(LEK-shuhn)

MEANING:

noun:
1. A version of a text in a particular copy or edition.
2. A selection read in a religious service. Also known as pericope.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin lection- (reading), from lectus, past participle of legere (to read, choose, collect). Ultimately from Indo-European root leg- (to collect) which also gave us lexicon, lesson, lecture, legible, legal, select, alexia, cull, ligneous, lignify, prolegomenon, subintelligitur, and syllogistic. Earliest documented use: 1300.

USAGE:

“The site provides information about the history of anti-evolution efforts in Tennessee, a ‘virtual information booth’ with essays about evolution, the full text of Futuyma’s keynote lection from the 1997 Darwin Day.”
Rebecca Chasan; Fighting Back for Science; Bioscience (Washington, DC); Jan 1998.

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