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Apr 20, 2011 This week's theme Words derived from musical instruments This week's words calliopean pariah clarion second fiddle highfalutin Internet Anagram Server I, Rearrangement Servant May I try your name? Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg clarion PRONUNCIATION: (KLAR-ee-uhn) MEANING: adjective: Loud and clear. noun: An ancient trumpet used as a signal in war. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin clarion- (trumpet), from clarus (clear). Earliest documented use: around 1384. USAGE: "'For survivors, Tullia Zevi was a clarion voice that warned against the dangers of neo-Nazism,' said Elan Steinberg." Prominent Anti-Fascist Dies Aged 91; Belfast Telegraph (Ireland); Jan 23, 2011. Explore "clarion" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. -Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist (1865-1946)

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