This week’s theme
Adjectives

This week’s words
allicient
cernuous
xanthic
predaceous
hortative

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(ZAN-thik)

MEANING:

adjective: Yellow or yellowish.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek xanthos (yellow). Earliest documented use: 1817. Two related words are xanthodontous (having yellow teeth) and Xanthippe (a nagging woman).

USAGE:

“It became denser, became a yellow fog of tiny, xanthic atoms, dancing endlessly.”
Jack Williamson; Golden Blood; Tamerland Press; 1978.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: