This week’s theme
Words one letter apart

This week’s words
mucid
lucid
sallow

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PRONUNCIATION:

(SAL-oh)

MEANING:

adjective: Of a sickly yellowish or pale color.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old English salu. Earliest documented use: before 1150.

USAGE:

“And Shaw’s fame and influence were not confined to the western world. He was also part of the public sphere in India and China. The great Chinese writer Lu Xun noted when Shaw visited Shanghai in 1933 how everyone was hoping he would endorse their own opinions: ‘The lame hope he will advocate using crutches, those with scabies hope he will praise hat-wearing, those who use rouge hope he will taunt sallow-faced matrons.”
Fintan O’Toole; World Has Never Needed Shaw the Sceptic More: Irish Times (Dublin); Oct 28, 2017.

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