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This week's theme There's a word for it This week's words acnestis daymare nihilarian lentiginous spurtle A lentiginous girl (Photo: April T.) Make 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 lentiginous PRONUNCIATION: (len-TIJ-uh-nuhs) MEANING: adjective: Covered with freckles. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin lentiginosus (freckled), from lentigo (freckle), from lens (lentil). USAGE: "I realised that my freckly Celtic complexion wasn't a curse I had to endure for life, and my offensively lentiginous skin could be smoothed into picture-perfect ivory." Simon Price; Cover-up, Powder and Eyeliner; The Guardian (London, UK); Dec 14, 2002. Explore "lentiginous" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals. -Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)

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