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Sep 23, 2010 This week's theme Letter-words This week's words emanate deify extenuate elegy tedium Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg elegy or L-E-G PRONUNCIATION: (EL-i-jee) MEANING: noun: A poem composed as a lament for the dead. ETYMOLOGY: Via French and Latin from Greek elegos (a mournful poem or song). USAGE: "Frederick Septimus Kelly wrote his best-known work, an elegy for string orchestra, in memory of his friend, poet Rupert Brooke." Matthew Westwood; Lament for Fame's First Victim; The Australian (Sydney); Aug 18, 2006. Explore "elegy" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (b. 1920)

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