This week’s theme
Misc. words

This week’s words
scansorial
stridor
disquisition
sanguinary
concupiscence

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PRONUNCIATION:

(STRY-duhr)

MEANING:

noun: A harsh, grating or creaking sound.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin stridere (to make a harsh sound). Earliest documented use: 1632.

NOTES:

The word is often used for the harsh vibrating sound produced when breathing with an airway obstruction.

USAGE:

“Abruptly the stridor yielded to a cadence of almost tender mellowness.”
Curt Maury; The Glitter and Other Stories; iUniverse; 2010.

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

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