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May 28, 2009
This week's themeWords derived from numbers This week's words decussate hecatomb atone tessera decuman Tessera
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PRONUNCIATION:
(TES-uhr-uh; plural tesserae: TES-uhr-ee)
MEANING:
noun: A small piece of stone, glass, or tile used to make a mosaic.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin, from Greek tesseres, variant of tessares (four), from the four
corners of its square shape.
USAGE:
"Like red-stained tessera, the remnants of lost lives come together
to compose a vast and shocking mosaic of contemporary life."Art Gould; Piecing It All Together; The Anniston Star (Alabama); May 10, 2009. See more usage examples of tessera in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. -Leo Tolstoy, author (1828-1910)
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