This week’s theme
Words differing by a letter

This week’s words
androgenic
ideophone
idiophone
thanatopsis
thanatosis

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PRONUNCIATION:

(than-uh-TOP-sis)

MEANING:

noun: A reflection upon death.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek thanatos (death) + -opsis (appearance, view).

USAGE:

“Subject to constant death threats, Dr. [Martin Luther] King ‘had a thread of thanatopsis, a preoccupation of his death.’ It blistered through his oratory. Canaan portrays a man aware his time would be brief and despairing of realizing his dreams.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer; King Chronicler to Speak at Free Library; Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News; Jan 24, 2005.

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