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Dec 23, 2024
This week’s themeNo el This week’s words 
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A.Word.A.Day
with Anu GargIn Dutch it is kerst (short for Kerstmis), in German Weihnachten (sacred night), in Hindi bada din (big day, referring to the start of days getting bigger), and in Spanish Navidad (birth). You may have guessed which event I’m referring to above. Yes, it’s Xmas. Now, here’s a quiz for you. Just what is the word for it in French? Here’s a hint: so far, I have used every character, except one. Why? Because No el. Joyeux Noël! We’re going to do the same for words featured this week, as we do every year at this time. Together, words featured this week make use of each character except that one (the 12th). disject
PRONUNCIATION:
(dis-JEKT)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To scatter or disperse.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin disjicere (to scatter), from dis- (apart) + -jicere, from
jacere (to throw). Earliest documented use: 1581.
USAGE:
“Can a storm ever be calmer than the stillness it disjects?” Stephen Quatro; How I Saved a Planet!; 4Qorners Press; 2020. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. -Juan Ramon Jimenez,
poet, Nobel Prize in literature (23 Dec 1881-1958)
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