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May 19, 2022

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ceraceous
hebdomadal
piscine
odontalgia
abligurition

Helium?
Will it kill the pain?
No, but when you scream, it’s funny.

Cartoon: Dan Piraro

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odontalgia

PRONUNCIATION:

(oh-don-TAL-juh, -jee-uh)

MEANING:

noun: Toothache.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek odont- (tooth) + -algia (pain). Earliest documented use: 1706.

USAGE:

“What’s his tag say, Hemingby? ...
Odontalgia. Treatment: Oil of Cloves?”
Richard Pike; Do Not Forget Me Quite; Troubador; 2014.

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

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. -Lorraine Hansberry, playwright and painter (19 May 1930-1965)

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