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Nov 28, 2012 This week's theme Illustrated words This week's words bursiform concinnity lachrymal wassail phantasmagoria Illustration: Leah Palmer Preiss Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg lachrymal or lacrimal PRONUNCIATION: (LAK-ruh-muhl) MEANING: adjective: Relating to or inducing tears. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin lacrima (tear). Earliest documented use: 1541. USAGE: "She wiped his tears with the edge of her garment, but that made him more lachrymal." Udai Rathor; Kojia, the Ugly; Strategic Book Publishing; 2012. Explore "lachrymal" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. -Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (1850-1894)

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