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Sep 26, 2024
This week’s theme
Words differing by a letter

This week’s words
exhort
extort
nemorous
memorous
androgynic

memorous
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memorous

PRONUNCIATION:
(MEM-uhr-uhs)

MEANING:
adjective: Likely to be remembered; notable.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin + memoria (memory). Earliest documented use: 1530.

USAGE:
“Troy’s father proposed that they leave Des Moines and start a new life in Beganning, California. Eager to escape the memorous pains that his hometown held, Troy agreed.”
LeRoy Powell III; Vengeance; Writers Club Press; 2000.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away. -T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965)

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