This week's theme
Yours to discover

This week's words
olid
sook
zymic
meed
pica

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(meed)

MEANING:

noun: Reward; recompense; wage.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old English med. Earliest documented use: before 900.

USAGE:

"And speaking of seats, the folding chairs were hideously uncomfortable -- something like that fabled throne in Hades, which demanded a meed of blood and bone if you tried to leave it."
Craig Smith; Axelrod Quartet and NMSO; The Santa Fe New Mexican; Oct 17, 2003.

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