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This week's theme Blends. This week's words advertorial cultivar exurb spokesmodel rollick Give a gift that ... keeps on giving, all year long A gift subscription of AWAD Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg exurb PRONUNCIATION: (EK-suhrb) MEANING: noun: A residential area outside a city and beyond its suburbs, typically inhabited by well-to-do families. ETYMOLOGY: A blend of ex- + suburb. USAGE: "Housing tracts in farm fields aren't the only odd sights showing up in spreading exurbs like this one north of Columbus." Dems Send Aid Into Traditionally GOP Exurbs; The Associated Press; Jun 11, 2008. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in. -Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (1858-1919)

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