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Jul 20, 2010
This week's themeWords that look one part of speech but are other This week's words contumely panegyric nebbish gloaming beggar 
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with Anu Gargpanegyric
PRONUNCIATION:
(pan-i-JIR-ik, -JY-rik)
MEANING:
noun:
A formal or elaborate oration in praise of someone or something; eulogy.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin panegyricus, from Greek panegyrikos (of or for an assembly),
from paneguris (public assembly), from pan- (all) + aguris (assembly,
marketplace). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ger- (to gather)
that is also the source of gregarious, aggregate, congregation, egregious,
and segregate.
USAGE:
"Gov. George Pataki's 10th State of the State speech yesterday was more
a panegyric to freedom and security than a rousing promise to fix what's
clearly wrong with New York's government."A Real State of New York; The New York Times; Jan 8, 2004. See more usage examples of panegyric in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live. -Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)
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