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May 14, 2025
This week’s themeInteresting usage examples This week’s words winsome susurrant ![]() ![]() Gif: Gifer
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with Anu Gargsusurrant
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
adjective : Whispering or rustling.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin susurrare (to whisper or hum), of imitative origin. Earliest
documented use: 1791. The verb form is susurrate
and the noun is susurrus.
USAGE:
“She decides to seduce the scruffy macho cop with the susurrant name,
Detective Scieziesciez.” Liam Lacey; One Messy Electra Complex; The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada); Oct 24, 2014. See more usage examples of susurrant in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of
subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. -Hal Borland, author and
journalist (14 May 1900-1978)
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