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This week’s words
senescence
tromometer
happenchance
natant
succus

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PRONUNCIATION:

(tro-MOM-i-tuhr)

MEANING:

noun: An instrument for detecting or measuring faint tremors caused by an earthquake.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek tromos (trembling). Earliest documented use: 1878.

USAGE:

“A tromometer being perfectly at rest whilst a heavy gale was blowing round the observatory shows that the connection between two sets of phenomena is not so close as might at first be supposed.”
John Milne; Seismology; Cambridge; 1898.

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