This week’s theme
Words that turn into another when a letter is added or removed at the top

This week’s words
olid
latitudinarian
fuliginous
emesis
tautologous


This week’s comments
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Next week’s theme
Words to describe people

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(to-TOL-uh-guhs)

MEANING:

adjective: Involving unnecessary repetition of an idea, especially in different words, for example, a good-looking beautiful woman.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek tauto- (same), contraction of “to auto” (the same) + -logy (word). Earliest documented use: 1646.

USAGE:

“It is a bit tautologous, though. All it really tells us is that art affects the brain like art.”
Oliver Moody; What Can Monkeys and Orange Juice Tell Us About Bach?; The Times (London, UK); Oct 27, 2017.

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