This week’s theme
Adjectives

This week’s words
evanescent
splendiferous
ontic
phantasmagorical
consummate

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(fan-taz-muh-GOR-i-kuhl)

MEANING:

adjective: Illusory; strange; deceptive; imaginary; surreal; hallucinatory.

ETYMOLOGY:

From French fantasmagorie, from fantasme (phantasm), from Latin phantasia, from Greek phantasia, perhaps combined with Greek agora (assembly). Earliest documented use: 1828.

USAGE:

“Trump’s phantasmagorical visions of marauding immigrants are part of a genre in which immigration and race are intermingled.”
Evan Osnos; The Fearful and The Frustrated; The New Yorker; Aug 31, 2015.
[Also see this.]

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