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May 4, 2016
This week’s themeWords 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. See more usage examples of unwonted in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon
insufficient evidence. -William Kingdon Clifford, mathematician and
philosopher (4 May 1845-1879)
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