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Mar 30, 2012 This week's theme Verbs This week's words subsume discomfit begrudge avulse machinate Next week's theme French words that are now anglicized Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg machinate PRONUNCIATION: (MAK-uh-nayt, MASH-) MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To plot or scheme. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin machinari (to contrive), from machina (device). Ultimately from the Indo-European root magh- (to be able, have power), which is also the source of might, may, dismay, and magic. Earliest documented use: 1537. USAGE: "Most storylines in The Bold and the Beautiful revolve around characters who manipulate and machinate for love and money." Christina Hoag; Skid Row Featured in Soap Opera; AP (New York); Jun 12, 2011 Explore "machinate" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast. -Julie Burchill, writer and journalist (b. 1959)

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