This week’s theme
Words from geometry

This week’s words
elliptic
triangulation
squarely
tangent
asymptote

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(SKWAIR-lee)

MEANING:

adverb:
1. In a straightforward or frank manner.
2. Firmly.
3. Directly.
4. At right angles.

ETYMOLOGY:

From square, from Latin exquadrare (to square). Earliest documented use: 1557.

USAGE:

“After writing and revising three chapters of what I envisioned as my first book, I showed a draft to my wife, an endocrinologist. She read them, and then looked at me squarely. ‘They’re awful,’ she said.”
Jerome Groopman; The Scalpel and the Pen; The New Yorker; Jul 25, 2022.

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

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