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Aug 25, 2010 This week's theme Random words This week's words fluvial sidereal orison macerate sward Got a website? Free content for your site Words, quotations & more Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg orison PRONUNCIATION: (OR-uh-suhn, -zuhn) MEANING: noun: A prayer. ETYMOLOGY: Via French from Latin oration (speech, prayer), from orare (to speak, pray), from os (mouth). USAGE: "David Carlin's brilliant title, Our Father Who Wasn't There, mingles orison and lament. It is the apparent opening of a prayer for an absent or lost father." A Son Searches for the Father Who Wasn't There; The Canberra Times (Australia); Feb 6, 2010. Explore "orison" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)

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