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Mar 7, 2014 This week's theme Verbs This week's words gallivant vituperate scrutate distend manducate Send a gift that keeps on giving, all year long: A gift subscription of AWAD or give the gift of books A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg manducate PRONUNCIATION: (MAN-joo-kayt) MEANING: verb tr.: To chew or eat. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin mandere (to chew). Ultimately from the Indo-European root menth- (to chew), which also gave us masticate, mandible, and manger. Earliest documented use: 1623. USAGE: "Flem literally manducates, chewing over his surroundings." Michael Wainwright; Darwin and Faulkner's Novels; Palgrave Macmillan; 2008. See more usage examples of manducate in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Habit with him was all the test of truth, / It must be right: I've done it from my youth. -George Crabbe, poet and naturalist (1754-1832)

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