This week’s theme
Words differing by a letter

This week’s words
exhort
extort
nemorous
memorous
androgynic


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PRONUNCIATION:

(an-druh-JIN-ik)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Exhibiting traits associated with male as well as female identities.
2. Having a gender presentation that blends or transcends traditional binary categories.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek andro- (man) + -gune (woman). Earliest documented use: 1834.

USAGE:

“[Ernie Trova] created a form that became a totem of the times, the sleek, androgynic Falling Man. The figure is featureless, limitlessly reproducible, instantly identifiable, and eventually, and perhaps appropriately, rather commercial.”
Robert W. Duffy; Adding to the Accumulation; St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri); Feb 4, 1996.

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