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This week's theme Yours to discover This week's words aphotic plashy procellous scrabble balsamic This week's solution AWADmail 209 Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day--balsamic This week's theme: yours to discover. balsamic (bal-SAM-ik) adjective 1. Fragrant. 2. Soothing or healing. 3. Relating to balsam. [From Latin balsamum, from Greek balsamon.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. Balsam is any of several aromatic plant resins. Balsamic vinegar, named for its supposed health-giving properties, is a dark, sweet and sour vinegar traditionally made in the Modena region in Italy. It's made from white grapes and matured in wooden casks over several years. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) PS: We hope you found this week's five words (aphotic, plashy, procellous, scrabble, balsamic) valuable, but what's the property that makes them all equal? Send your answer to wordsATwordsmith.org (replace AT with @). "Bussing my body with soft balsamic busses..." Walt Whitman; Leaves of Grass; 1900. X-Bonus A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. -Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)

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