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This week's theme Yours to discover This week's words anthropomorphize kafkaesque dysphagia excursive jabberwocky License Our Material Not just in email, our daily words appear in various media, from newspapers to digital picture frames. You too can license our material for your newspaper, magazine, website, newsletter, LCD display, etc. See details. Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day--dysphagia This week's theme: Yours to discover. dysphagia (dis-FAYJ-uh, -jee-uh) noun Difficulty in swallowing. [From Greek dys- (bad, difficult) + phagein (to eat).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "So Boswell and Achilles collaborated on creating The Dysphagia Cookbook: Great Tasting and Nutritious Recipes for People with Swallowing Difficulties." Mary Beth Faller; Book Aids Those With Eating Ills; The Arizona Republic; Mar 14, 2006. X-Bonus A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener. -Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)

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