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Rorschach test, named after Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922),
aims to discover the personality of a person which can't be found by the usual
questions. The subject is show random inkblot designs and asked to interpret
them. The same inkblot may appear as clouds to one person, an elephant to
another, while a third person may see a face of a woman.

Well, this week's AWAD may seem quite like this test, but it isn't. The words
for the next five days may appear to be selected with no design, but they do
have a common theme. There is a definite property that a word has to fulfill
before making an appearance this week. And your mission is to identify that
common trait. The first one to figure it out gets worldwide fame by having
his/her name circulated in nearly 200 countries. Send your interpretations
to anu@wordsmith.org. One answer per person, please.


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So, have any of you made any guesses as to what this week's theme is? At first I guessed words that sound like numbers, but I think that has since fallen out of possibility.


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I think it's something to do with animals, but can't quite work out just what.


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I am using this in my classroom to curb tardiness. If they are in class on time they can write the WOTD on a piece of paper and get points. If they are late they stand outside until the others are done and get no points. So far two of my girls were thinking it had to do with size. But today's word throws that one off I think. Agghhhhhh.



"What we do in life, echoes an eternity" - Maximus Decimus Meridias.

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I think the theme this week is 'small things or ways of being that stand out from their surroundings and call for attention." The first word, dekko (a look), is what the following four words cry out for you to bestow upon them. An ait, horst, and bijou are poetically synonymous upraised masses relative to their surroundings while dotty-ness is an example of such an expression in the human personality.


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Welcome, Roibin and pedelman.
I guess we'll have to wait for the great Anu to give us the answer. R., you say you're a teacher: well, there are other crazy people here, too! More power to you, my dear.

Edit-in: welcome sylv, too.


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What I noticed, is that all words were used in a review or description (?)


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Nobody bothered to respond to my email on Tuesday morning, so i suppose my guess was incorrect, but i noticed that one unifying element was that each of the words had all of its letters in alphabetical order. too sophomoric an observation? it has at least held true, so far.

bridget=)

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I can't doubt that you are right. And if they try to say that's not it, well, you've still got something.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!


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I too guessed alphabetical order, but on Wednesday (a day late, an accolade short). Cheer up, bridget96, you're probably right and you'll hear about it in the weekend letter.


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