This week’s theme
Words with hooks

This week’s words
ambit
peculate
resumptive
uberous
olio

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Next week’s theme
Words derived from Dutch

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(OH-lee-oh)

MEANING:

noun: A miscellaneous collection of things, for example, a variety show.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Spanish olla (pot, stew), from Latin olla (pot). Earliest documented use: 1642. Also see olla podrida.

USAGE:

“I will launch into an olio of malapropisms, bad abbreviations, similar words that tend to be used interchangeably.”
All right, Already! Today You Get Plenty of Options; Daily Herald (Illinois); Sep 13, 2015.

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