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Nov 13, 2020

This week’s theme
Words having all five vowels and in order

This week’s words
anemious
acedious
adventitious
caesious
annelidous

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Next week’s theme
Words derived from body

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with Anu Garg

annelidous

PRONUNCIATION:

(uh-NEL-uh-duhs)

MEANING:

adjective: Of or relating to worms.

ETYMOLOGY:

From French anneler (to ring), from Latin anellus, diminutive of anus (ring). Earliest documented use: 1835.

USAGE:

“The mud in many places was thrown up by numbers of some kind of worm, or annelidous animal.”
Charles Darwin; Voyage of the Beagle; 1839.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire. -Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (13 Nov 1850-1894)

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