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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--anemious This week's theme: words having vowels aeiou once and only once, and in order. anemious (uh-NEE-mi-uhs) adjective Growing in windy conditions. [From Greek anemos (wind).] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "By late afternoon the light that washed over the garden turned it into a lake of gold, with islands of shadow; the blown lilies, the long tendrils of roses and the anemious grasses streamed like plants that grow in water." Edith Pope; River in the Wind; Scribner; 1954. X-Bonus True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive. -Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author (1913-1983)

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