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Jul 7, 2010 This week's theme Words made with combining forms This week's words plutocracy bibliolatry epigraph anemometer stenosis An epigraph on the Taj Mahal Photo: Soam P. Lall Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg epigraph PRONUNCIATION: (EP-i-graf) MEANING: noun: 1. An inscription on a building or statue. 2. A quotation introducing a book or a chapter. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek epi- (on, upon) + -graph (writing). USAGE: "A Counterfeit Silence includes an epigraph from Thornton Wilder: 'Even speech was for them a debased form of silence.'" William Grono and Dennis Haskell; Solitary Writer Randolph Stow Chose Silence; The Australian (Sydney); Jun 1, 2010. Explore "epigraph" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. -Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President (1809-1865)

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