This week’s theme
Words to describe people

This week’s words
verigreen
raffish
clamant
draggletailed
faitour

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Next week’s theme
Words that look one part of speech but are other

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(FAY-tuhr)

MEANING:

noun: A cheat or impostor.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin factor (maker, doer, perpetrator), from facere (to make or to do). Earliest documented use: 1340.

USAGE:

“Herod’s eagerness to slay those faitours who threaten his supremacy ....”
Deanne Williams; The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare; Cambridge University Press; 2004.

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