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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--tinctumutation This week's theme: 14-letter words, 14-letter definitions. tinctumutation (tingk-tu-myoo-TAY-shuhn) noun Change of colors. [From Latin tinctus (a dyeing) + mutation (changing).] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Neither is tinctumutation the result of the direct influence of light." The Popular Science Monthly; 1895. X-Bonus If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. -Desmond Tutu, clergyman (b. 1931)

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