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with Anu GargThis week's five words made the cut because they have a special property. What is it? Can you discover the reason these words were selected to be featured? Email your answer to (contest at wordsmith.org) by Friday. One entry per person, please. Result will be announced in next weekend's AWADmail. Two winners -- first reader to identify the theme, and a reader randomly selected from all correct entries -- will receive a signed copy of one of my books. In your email, please include your preference for the book you'd like to receive if you are a winner. And while you are writing, do not hesitate to add any comments or suggestions you might have about A.Word.A.Day. odious
PRONUNCIATION:
(O-dee-uhs)
MEANING:
adjective:
Highly offensive; inspiring and deserving hatred.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin odium (hatred), from odisse (to hate). Ultimately from the
Indo-European root od- (to hate) that is also the source of the words
annoy, noisome, and ennui.
USAGE:
"All over the US there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack
of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than
the rich, powerful, and arrogant trying to keep it that way."Simon Hoggart; Why the American Right Make Me Sick; The Guardian (London, UK); Aug 15, 2009. See more usage examples of odious in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth. -Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer (1804-1864)
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