This week’s theme
Words from chemistry

This week’s words
osmosis
solvent
caustic
bromidic
miscible

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(SOL-vuhnt)

MEANING:

adjective:	1. Able to pay one’s debts.
	2. Able to dissolve another substance.
noun:	1. Something that dissolves another.
	2. Something that solves a problem.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin solvere (to loosen, to dissolve, to pay). Ultimately from the Indo-European root leu- (to loosen, divide), which also gave us forlorn, lag, loss, solve, analysis, resolute, and catalyst. Earliest documented use: 1653.

USAGE:

“They were solvent, yes, but they had to watch the pennies still.”
Jessie Keane; Dangerous; Pan Macmillan; 2015.

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

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: