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Jan 29, 2025
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psychrolute
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rupestrian
abulia
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rupestrian
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rupestrian

PRONUNCIATION:
(roo-PES-tree-uhn)

MEANING:
adjective: Relating to, composed of, or carved on rocks.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin rupes (rock). Earliest documented use: 1800.

USAGE:
“Set in a former 13th-century rupestrian chapel, the hotel has incredible interiors, with towering arches, golden stone, and rooms carved into the cave.”
Zara Sekhavati; Matera Life & Death; The Independent (London, UK); Jan 12, 2019.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. -Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (29 Jan 1927-1989)

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