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Words that appear misspelled

This week’s words
gapeseed
windrow
unwonted
angor
refect

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PRONUNCIATION:

(un-WON-tid)

MEANING:

adjective: Unusual or unaccustomed.

ETYMOLOGY:

From un- + Middle English woned, wont (accustomed), past participle of wonen (to be used to, to dwell). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wen- (to desire or to strive for), which is also the source of wish, win, Venus, overweening, venerate, venison, and banyan, venial, and ween. Earliest documented use: 1553.

USAGE:

“[The play] looks at why the placid-seeming Howe was driven to such unwonted ferocity.”
Michael Billington; Dead Sheep Review; The Guardian (London, UK); Apr 6, 2015.

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