A.Word.A.Day --lachrymal

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Nov 28, 2012

This week's theme
Illustrated words

This week's words
bursiform
concinnity
lachrymal
wassail
phantasmagoria

A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

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.

See more usage examples of lachrymal in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.

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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