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Supervocalic words

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euphoria
quaternion
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PRONUNCIATION:

(kwuh/kwah-TUHR-nee-uhn)

MEANING:

noun: A set of four persons, things, etc.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin quattuor (four). Earliest documented use: 1384.

USAGE:

“There were four of us then, not merely two, and in our quaternion the vintage sap flowed freely, flowed and bled and boiled as it may never again.”
John Hawkes; The Blood Oranges; New Directions; 1972.

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

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