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Feb 21, 2023
This week’s theme
Adverbs

This week’s words
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astern
sinistrad
agley
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meme: I never use adverbs, literally never
I never use adverbs - literally never

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astern

PRONUNCIATION:
(uh-STUHRN)

MEANING:
adverb, adjective:
1. At the rear of a ship or another vessel.
2. In a reverse direction.
3. Backward.

ETYMOLOGY:
From a- (toward) + stern (back part), probably from Old Norse stjorn (steering). Earliest documented use: 1627.

USAGE:
“He kept staring astern , and now I saw he wasn’t looking at the line, he was gazing much farther back, to the horizon.”
Grant Sutherland; The Consignment; Bantam; 2003.

See more usage examples of astern in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The little I know, I owe to my ignorance. -Sacha Guitry, actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright (21 Feb 1885-1957)

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