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Feb 12, 2025
This week’s theme
Verbs

This week’s words
insufflate
spanghew
peregrinate
quetch
nidify

peregrinate
“Can’t you just sit still for a moment?”
“But Mom, peregrine falcon -- remember?”
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peregrinate

PRONUNCIATION:
(PER-uh-gruh-nayt)

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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