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A.Word.A.Day--endogenous endogenous (en-DOJ-e-nuhs) adjective 1. Produced or growing from within. 2. Originating or produced within an organism, a tissue, or a cell. [Endo- inside + -genous producing.] "This (Air Force Institute of Technology) thesis simultaneously attacks the questions of endogenous effort, retirement, and promotions." Endogenous Effort, Promotion, Retirement, and Heterogeneous Ability in a Labor Hierarchy, Innovator's Digest, Jul 1999. (This week you discover the themes of the words. Each word belongs to one of the previous themes in A.Word.A.Day.) X-Bonus As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own. -Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901-1978)

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