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Jul 10, 2024
This week’s themeMisleading words This week’s words adulterate metromania sexennial placer psychrophobia ![]() ![]() Image: VLPGifts / Amazon
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with Anu Gargsexennial
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
noun: An event occurring every six years. adjective: Happening every six years; lasting for or relating to six years. ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin sex (six) + annus (year). Earliest documented use: 1646.
USAGE:
“Asarem had captured an impressive sixty-seven percent of the
vote when she’d won her second sexennial term a year earlier.” David R. George III and Una McCormack; Typhon Pact: Pocket Books; 2013. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like
that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding
to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love,
everything. -Nikola Tesla, electrical engineer and inventor (10 Jul
1856-1943)
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