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Jun 22, 2009
This week's themeMiscellaneous words This week's words eleemosynary obloquy palliate countervail excoriate Missed a word? Check the archives chronological alphabetical thematic or search the site 
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with Anu GargHave you ever taken a vacation that's planned to every nanosecond? At 9:37 we visit the Garden of Standonburg and spend an hour and 18 minutes there, then we reach the Pamponi Museum at 11:09, and then .... Well, that's not a vacation, is it? Sometimes it's best to let yourself roam through what may come, with no plan, no schedule, no rules, no aim, and nothing to guide except a free mind and open heart. This week's AWAD is prepared in just that spirit. A word tickles our fancy and leads us to some others that bring forth new sights. We skip some of them, move ahead or perhaps take a leisurely stroll through the dictionary. There's nothing common among the words selected -- at least as far as we know. There's no theme to constrain our word choices during the next five days. Or maybe that's the theme. eleemosynary
PRONUNCIATION:
(el-uh-MOS-uh-ner-ee, el-ee-, -MOZ-)
MEANING:
adjective:
Relating to charity.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin eleemosynarius, from eleemosyna (alms), from Greek eleemosyne
(pity, charity), from eleemon (pitiful), from eleos (pity).
USAGE:
"The Guzmans started their non-profit organization, Path of Hope Foundation,
18 years ago. Their single goal: to care for the poor who live near their
corner. The Thanksgiving dinner is one of their eleemosynary events."Lynn Seeden; Free Thanksgiving Dinner Feeds 1,400; Orange County Register (Santa Ana, California); Dec 4, 2003. See more usage examples of eleemosynary in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success. -Gerry Spence, lawyer (b. 1929)
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