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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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