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Nov 10, 2010
This week's themeMiscellaneous words This week's words vitiate parsimonious miry majordomo fatuous 
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with Anu Gargmiry
PRONUNCIATION:
(MYR-ee)
MEANING:
adjective:1. Resembling mire. 2. Muddy; swampy. ETYMOLOGY:
From mire (bog), from Old Norse myrr. Earliest recorded use: 1398.
USAGE:
"This election night, American liberals, sternum-deep in that miry slough
of despond, are as depressed as they've been since the Florida debacle
back in 2000."Michael Tomasky; Midterms 2010: A Sea-Change in Just Two Years; The Guardian (London, UK); Nov 3, 2010. See more usage examples of miry in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Several excuses are always less convincing than one. -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
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