This week’s theme
Words using only one of the vowels

This week’s words
parastatal
defervescence
imprimis
poltroon
tumulus

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(im-PRY-mis, -PREE-)

MEANING:

adverb: In the first place.

ETYMOLOGY:

From contraction of Latin phrase in primis (among the first), from in (among) and primus (first). The word was originally used to introduce the first of a number of articles in a list, such as a will, an inventory, etc. Earliest documented use: 1465.

USAGE:

“Imprimis, H.M. did not like being addressed as the Ancient Mariner; and, secondly, he said he had an artistic temperament and must not be interrupted while rehearsing his lines.”
John Dickson Carr; And So to Murder; Merrivale; 1940.

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