This week’s theme
Misc. words

This week’s words
scansorial
stridor
disquisition
sanguinary
concupiscence

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PRONUNCIATION:

(dis-kwuh-ZISH-uhn)

MEANING:

noun: A formal discussion on a subject: discourse or dissertation.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin disquirere (to investigate), from dis- (intensive prefix) + quaerere (to seek or ask). Earliest documented use: 1605.

USAGE:

“Boris Johnson’s disquisition to the United Nations described potential futures in which ‘your fridge will beep for more cheese’, ‘pink-eyed terminators’ are sent back in time to ‘cull the human race’, and synthetic biologists create ‘terrifying limbless chickens’.”
Weekly Review; Harper’s Magazine; Oct 1, 2019.

See more usage examples of disquisition in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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