This week’s theme
Interesting usage examples

This week’s words
renunciatory
winsome
susurrant
ruderal
bereft

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PRONUNCIATION:

(soo/suh-SUHR-uhnt)

MEANING:

adjective : Whispering or rustling.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin susurrare (to whisper or hum), of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1791. The verb form is susurrate and the noun is susurrus.

USAGE:

“She decides to seduce the scruffy macho cop with the susurrant name, Detective Scieziesciez.”
Liam Lacey; One Messy Electra Complex; The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada); Oct 24, 2014.

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

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