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May 18, 2018 This week’s theme Words made with combining forms This week’s words megalomania leptodermous saprogenic ectogenous carcinogenic “Words are the small change of thought.” ~Jules Renard Send some to friends & family A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg carcinogenic 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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