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Oct 21, 2008 This week's theme Words that appear to have been coined after the 2008 US presidential candidates. This week's words obambulate bidentate palinode meeken barrack Today's word in Visual Thesaurus 2¢ Worth? The Dord, the Diglot and an Avocado or Two: $14.95/694 words = a (cheap) college education. Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg bidentate PRONUNCIATION: (by-DEN-tayt) MEANING: adjective: Having two teeth or toothlike parts. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin bi- (two) + dens (tooth). USAGE: "Noah and his wife humorously feed all the beasts; Noah pours a pail of milk into the hippo's gaping bidentate mouth." Jon Solomon; The Ancient World in the Cinema; Yale University Press; 2001. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

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