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May 6, 2016
This week’s themeWords that appear misspelled This week’s words gapeseed windrow unwonted angor refect This week’s comments AWADmail 723 Next week’s theme Forgotten positives ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Gargrefect
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
verb tr.: To refresh with food or drink.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin reficere (to renew or restore), from re- (back) + facere (to make).
Earliest documented use: 1488.
USAGE:
“[I attempt] recipes that refect thrill-seeking appetites, and which can
be served together like a spread-out picnic.” Rose Prince; Spring Free; Telegraph Magazine (London, UK); Apr 4, 2015. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just
as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops
in action. -Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (6 May
1856-1939)
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