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This week's theme Words made with combining forms This week's words stenotopic menticide eurybathic exogenous cacography Today's word in Visual Thesaurus Works based on AWAD An ongoing serial, limericks & more Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg exogenous PRONUNCIATION: (ek-SOJ-uh-nuhs) MEANING: adjective: Originating from outside. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek exo- (outside) + -gen (relating to producing). Opposite is endogenous. USAGE: "The key to understanding this crisis -- the worst since the 1930s -- is to see that it was generated within the financial system itself. What we are witnessing is not the result of some exogenous shock that knocked things off balance." George Soros; A New Motor For the World Economy; The Bangkok Post (Thailand); Oct 18, 2008. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The stateliest building man can raise is the ivy's food at last. -Charles Dickens, novelist (1812-1870)

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