This week’s theme
Yours to discover

This week’s words
quoz
vidimus
pinchbeck
jayhawker
expergefacient


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PRONUNCIATION:

(eks-puhr-juh-FAY-shuhnt)

MEANING:

adjective: Awakening or arousing.
noun: A drug or other agent that awakens or arouses.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin expergefacere (to awaken), from expergisci (to become awake) + facere (to make or do). Earliest documented use: 1821.

USAGE:

“These symptoms of nervous excitement, brought on by an overdose of the expergefacient, soon passed off, and next day he was himself again.”
The London Lancet; 1864.

THEME:

So how were this week’s words selected? These five words had all the letters of the English alphabet, except the letter L. Joyeux Noel!

Now, a pangram is a sentence that uses all letters of the alphabet. The most well-known is “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog” which makes use of 33 letters. People have come up with shorter pangrams too.

Let’s call it a noelgram -- a sentence that uses all letters of the alphabet, except the letter L. What noelgrams can you come up with?

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