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May 18, 2018
This week’s themeWords made with combining forms This week’s words megalomania leptodermous saprogenic ectogenous carcinogenic This week’s comments AWADmail 829 Next week’s theme Eponyms coined after authors (and a contest) 
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with Anu Gargcarcinogenic
PRONUNCIATION:
(kahr-si-nuh-JEN-ik)
MEANING:
adjective: Capable of causing cancer.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek carcino- (cancer) + -genic (producing). Earliest documented use: 1916.
USAGE:
“She preached sound diet and positive attitude, preferred to eat crap,
smoke and drink, and actively wanted something else carcinogenic to do,
like sunbathing.” Frances Fyfield; Safer Than Houses; Little, Brown; 2005. See more usage examples of carcinogenic in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
A book of verses underneath the bough, / A jug of wine, a loaf of bread --
and thou / Beside me singing in the wilderness -- / Oh, wilderness were
paradise enow! -Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer,
and physician (18 May 1048-1131)
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