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A.Word.A.Day--repine repine (ri-PYN) verb intr. 1. To feel discontent; to fret. 2. To yearn for something. [From re- + pine, from Middle English, from Old English pinian (to suffer). Ultimately from Indo-European root k(w)ei- that's also the source of words such as pain, penal, punish, impunity, and subpoena.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. "The rest of her life was to be spent in a wheelchair. She did not repine." Elisabeth Sheppard-Jones; The Times (London, UK); Mar 4, 2004. "But Oswald was a patient man and he never murmured or repined." John Gould; With Hannah, Oswald Didn't Need a Telephone; Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Massachusetts); Aug 28, 1998. X-Bonus Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you have. -Emile Chartier, philosopher (1868-1951)

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