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Apr 28, 2023

This week’s theme
Homophones

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rawky

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Next week’s theme
Words from Star Wars

A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

PRONUNCIATION:

(pronounced as the word rocky)

MEANING:

adjective: Foggy; damp; cold.

ETYMOLOGY:

From roke (smoke, steam, vapor, mist, rain, etc.), probably from Old Norse. Earliest documented use: 1601.

USAGE:

“’Tis bloody rawky weather!”
William Grace; Omniverse: Book II; Outskirts Press; 2019.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. -Karl Kraus, writer (28 Apr 1874-1936)

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