This week’s theme
Words that keep glowing even with a burnt-out letter

This week’s words
platitudinarian
orotund
suberous
parable
dubiety

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(PAR-uh-buhl)

MEANING:

noun: A short story that illustrates a moral lesson.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old French parable, from Latin parabola (comparison), from Greek parabole (comparison), from paraballein (to compare), from para- (beside) + ballein (to throw). Earliest documented use: 1250.
Remove the initial letter and you get arable.

USAGE:

“You have honored me this day with your story, which in other words, was like a parable.”
Michael Grant; Who Moved My Friggin’ Provolone?; CreateSpace; 2016.

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

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: