This week’s theme
Writers painting with words

This week’s words
symbiosis
genuflection
juvenescent


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PRONUNCIATION:

(joo-vuh-NES-uhnt)

MEANING:

adjective: Becoming youthful; young or youthful.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin juvenescere (to grow young), from juvenis (young; youth). Earliest documented use: 1821.

USAGE:

“Then, when I saw that ‘young veal’ was also proposed, my cup of sparkling mineral water ranneth over. I mean to say, just how young can veal be, given that it’s pretty juvenescent to begin with? After all, most veal is killed at some time between 20 weeks and a year, although there is the delicious titbit known as ‘bob veal’, which comes from calves slaughtered when they’re at most a month old -- and often only a few days old. Here at Borchardt, there was ‘young veal’, which was presumably very young indeed or they wouldn’t have made a big deal about it. Perhaps that’s why the waiters were so surgically precise: before the long evening at the dining tables began, they were assisting at operating ones, where cow foetuses were delivered prematurely, then butchered for their ineffably tender meat.”
Will Self; Real Meals; New Statesman (London); Aug 16, 2013.

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