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Feb 12, 2025
This week’s themeVerbs This week’s words insufflate spanghew peregrinate quetch nidify ![]() ![]()
“Can’t you just sit still for a moment?”
“But Mom, peregrine falcon -- remember?” Illustration: Anu Garg + AI
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with Anu Gargperegrinate
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To travel, especially to wander from place to place.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin peregrinari (to travel abroad), from peregrinus (foreigner),
from per- (through) + ager (land). Earliest documented use: 1593.
USAGE:
“All my traveling life, 40 years of peregrinating Africa, Asia, South
America, and Oceania, I have thought constantly of home -- and
especially of the America I had never seen.” Paul Theroux; The Long Way Home; Smithsonian (Washington, DC); Sep 2009. See more usage examples of peregrinate in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. -Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)
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