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Jul 11, 2025
This week’s themeWords related to colors This week’s words fulvous festucine spadiceous verdazurine versicolored ![]() ![]()
Versicolored Barbet
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with Anu Gargversicolored
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
adjective: 1. Having many colors; variegated. 2. Having a color that changes in appearance; iridescent. ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin vertere (to turn) + color. Earliest documented use: 1721.
USAGE:
“Adjacent to the breakfront, a smaller bookcase contained a veritable
farrago of versicolored origami.” John J. Klingerman; The Voice of the Sphinx; Covenant Books; 2021. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I hold one share in the corporate earth and am uneasy about the management.
-E.B. White, writer (11 Jul 1899-1985)
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