This week’s theme
Homophones

This week’s words
littoral
ocellated
aweigh
euthanasia
rawky

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(OS-uh-lay-tid)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Having eyelike spots.
2. Eyelike.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin ocellus, diminutive of oculus (eye). Earliest documented use: 1713.

USAGE:

“Among them, I see a beautiful torpedo ocellated: has a brown back and five large round stains, dark and bluish: they are surrounded by a clear halo and give to the animal an almost mystical beauty.”
Luigi Savagnone; The Man Mermaid; Lulu; 2016.

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

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