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Words with hidden animals

This week’s words
auspicate
ettercap
expiscate
bellwether
echinate


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PRONUNCIATION:

(EK-uh-nayt)

MEANING:

adjective: Spiny or bristly.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin echinus (hedgehog, sea urchin). Earliest documented use: 1668.

NOTES:

Something echinate is armed with bristles, prickles, or spines: a hedgehog in adjective form. Botanists may use it for a spiny seed pod or bristly pollen grain; the rest of us can use it for any question that should be handled with gloves.

USAGE:

“Joseph C. Hough Jr., president of Union Theological Seminary in New York, has been raising this echinate question in recent months. In speeches and in widely disseminated interviews with The New York Times and National Public Radio, Hough has suggested that Christians adopt a different way of viewing other faiths. He says that simply tolerating other faiths is ‘not sufficient in a world of religious pluralism’.”
Bill Tammeus; Holy Land; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wisconsin); Mar 31, 2002.

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