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Jul 24, 2013
This week's themeYours to discover This week's words olid sook zymic meed pica Internet Anagram Server I, Rearrangement Servant May I try your name? A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Gargzymic
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
adjective: Relating to fermentation.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek zym- (ferment). Earliest documented use: 1817.
USAGE:
"The figs squelched and split apart, emitting a zymic gas that made
her mouth and nose curl back." Paul David Adkin; Purgatory; Nubooks; 2013. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. -Honore de Balzac, novelist (1799-1850)
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