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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--endogamy This week's theme: words made using combining forms. endogamy (en-DOG-uh-mee) noun The practice of marriage within a specific social group. [From endo- (within), from Greek endon (within) + -gamy (marriage), from Greek gamos (marriage).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "A third of Americans have become religiously mobile -- ascribing not to their original faith. This social interweaving has bred forbearance to the point that religious endogamy has become irrelevant." Meidyatama Suryodiningrat; Pride, Prejudice & Hussein in U.S. Election; The Jakarta Post (Indonesia); Mar 8, 2008. X-Bonus It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. -Baltasar Gracian, philosopher and writer (1601-1658)

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