This week’s theme
Adjectives

This week’s words
alible
fulgurant
anfractuous
heliotropic
antelucan

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(hee-lee-uh-TROP-ik, -TROH-pik)

MEANING:

adjective: Turning toward the sun or the light.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek helio- (sun) + -tropic (turning). Earliest documented use: 1875.

USAGE:

“Architects have toyed with the idea of heliotropic mirrors that pick up sunlight at the top of tall buildings and shine it back down to street level, bathing the pavement in natural sunlight.”
Robert Nelson; Ideas Travelling at the Speed of Light; The Age (Melbourne, Australia); Apr 3, 2013.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: