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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--prequel This week's theme: lesser-known counterparts of common words. prequel (PREE-kwuhl) noun A book, movie, drama, etc. set in a time preceding that of an existing work. [From Latin pre- (before) + sequel, from Latin sequi (to follow).] There are other variants: midquel, sidequel, threequel, ad nauseam. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Author Budge Wilson admits writing Before Green Gables -- a prequel to Anne of Green Gables -- was a daunting task." Maria Kubacki; How Anne became Anne; Calgary Herald (Canada); Feb 10, 2008. X-Bonus To hurry pain is to leave a classroom still in session. To prolong pain is to remain seated in a vacated classroom and miss the next lesson. -Yahia Lababidi, writer (b. 1973)

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