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Oct 9, 2024

This week’s theme
Eponymic adjectives

This week’s words
Damoclean
Penelopean
melpomenish
Alician
Atlantean

Melpomene
Note the tragic mask in her hand.

Photo: Svetlana Belokon

A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

melpomenish

PRONUNCIATION:

(mel-POM-uh-nish)

MEANING:

adjective: Tragic; related to tragedy.

ETYMOLOGY:

After Melpomene, the Muse of tragedy in Greek mythology. Earliest documented use: 1801.

USAGE:

“I blunder and flounder on the stage of this melpomenish play called life. I feel like my soul has been pierced with a knife.”
Henry Daniel Madu Onwufuju; The Cothurnate Inebriate; Xlibris; 2023.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Imagine there's no countries, / It isn't hard to do. / Nothing to kill or die for, / And no religion, too. / Imagine all the people / Living life in peace. -John Lennon, musician (9 Oct 1940-1980)

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