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Aug 20, 2024
This week’s themeAdjectives This week’s words evanescent splendiferous ontic phantasmagorical consummate Illustration: Anu Garg + AI
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with Anu Gargsplendiferous
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
adjective: Extraordinarily impressive; magnificent.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin splendor (brilliance) + -fer (bearing). Earliest documented
use: 1500.
USAGE:
“We stop here and at the Royal Barges Museum to admire eight of the
Thai royal family’s splendiferous river barges.” Penny Watson; Song of the River; Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia); Oct 9, 2022. See more usage examples of splendiferous in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same
race, creed, and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by
noon. -George D. Aiken, US senator (20 Aug 1892-1984)
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