This week’s theme
Autological words

This week’s words
verbify
proparoxytone
abstruse
grandiloquent
sesquipedalianism


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Next week’s theme
Words originating in the hand

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(ses-kwi-pi-DAYL-yuh-niz-uhm)

MEANING:

noun:
1. The practice of using big words.
2. A very long word.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin sesqui- (one and a half) + ped- (foot). Earliest documented use: 1863.

USAGE:

“My son, showing that when it comes to sesquipedalianism, the fruit does not fall far from the tree, texted me: ‘Is the airplane whose prop eviscerates a large bald man in Raiders of the Lost Ark a real plane or is it a contrivance?’”
Peter Garrison; Remember the German Airplane?; Flying (New York); Apr 2016.

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