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Aug 30, 2011 This week's theme Miscellaneous words This week's words recondite cicatrize perspicuous refulgent plenary Got a website? Free content for your site Words, quotations & more Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg cicatrize PRONUNCIATION: (SIK-uh-tryz) MEANING: verb, tr., intr.: To heal or become healed by forming a scar. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin cicatrizare (to form a scar), from cicatrix (scar). Earliest documented use: 1563. USAGE: "Let's make the Katyn wound finally heal and cicatrize." Lech Kaczynski; Seventy Years On, It is Time the Wounds of Katyn Were Healed; The Independent (London, UK); Apr 13, 2010. Explore "cicatrize" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

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