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Aug 21, 2009
This week's themeWords that exercise all your fingers This week's words diastrophism micropsia supplicatory adiaphorism simpatico 
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with Anu Gargsimpatico
PRONUNCIATION:
(sim-PAH-ti-ko, -PAT-i-)
MEANING:
adjective:1. Like-minded; compatible. 2. Congenial; likable. ETYMOLOGY:
Via Italian or Spanish from Latin sympathia (sympathy), from Greek
sympatheia, from sym- (together with) + pathos (emotion, suffering).
USAGE:
"Basil and tomatoes are simpatico in so many ways. One major trait they
share is that neither should ever be refrigerated unless they have been
chopped."Bill Ward; Warm, Flavorful, Fresh Summer Food; The Arizona Daily Star (Tucson); Jul 29, 2009. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Choose only one master -- Nature. -Rembrandt, painter and etcher (1606-1669)
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