This week’s theme
Illustrated words

This week’s words
gramarye
quacksalver
viridity
yobbery
xenophile


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Where’s the rest of my word?

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PRONUNCIATION:

(ZEN-uh-fyl, ZEE-nuh-)

MEANING:

noun: One who is attracted to foreign things or people.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek xeno- (foreign) + -phile (love). Earliest documented use: 1934.

USAGE:

“Mr. Hall, 30, admits to being a bit of a xenophile, so ‘getting to know new people is my thing anyway’.”
Linda Bock; Changing Face of Grief; Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, Massachusetts); Jan 10, 2010.

NOTES:

With this, Leah has completed illustrations for words starting with each of the 26 letters of the alphabet:
antediluvian, bursiform, concinnity, disprize, equable, felicitous, gramarye, hegemony, ineluctable, juggernaut, klatsch, lachrymal, malinger, nimiety, oneiric, phantasmagoria, quacksalver, redolent, scandent, terrene, uberous, viridity, wassail, xenophile, yobbery, zymology

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