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Dec 1, 2011 This week's theme Illustrated words This week's words redolent equable terrene hegemony antediluvian Illustration: Leah Palmer Preiss Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg hegemony PRONUNCIATION: (hi-JEM-uh-nee, HEJ-uh-moh-nee) MEANING: noun: Predominance over others, especially of a country over other countries. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek hegemonia (leadership), from hegemon (leader), from hegeisthai (to lead). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sag- (to seek out), which is also the source of seek, ransack, ramshackle, forsake, and sagacious. Earliest documented use: 1567. USAGE: US hegemony is declining -- the era of overbearing US power is coming to an end." End Looks Near for American Hegemony; New Straits Times (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia); Nov 10, 2009. Explore "hegemony" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. -Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)

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