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Random words

This week’s words
tenebrous
swidden
turbid
prolegomenon
fructuous

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Words derived from body parts

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PRONUNCIATION:

(FRUHK-choo-uhs, FROOK-)

MEANING:

adjective: Productive; fruitful; fertile.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin fructus (fruit), from frui (to enjoy). Earliest documented use: 1382.

USAGE:

“Earlier this month Yemen made international headlines, this time not for its fructuous progress toward building democratic state institutions but rather for a more somber reason, the scheduled execution of a man, who, at the time of his crime was a juvenile.”
Death Penalty; Yemen Post (Sana’a); Mar 16, 2013.

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