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This week’s words
quidditative
microcephalic
chrysocracy
lachrymogenic
pleniloquence

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PRONUNCIATION:

(lak-ruh-muh-JEN-ik)

MEANING:

adjective: Inducing tears.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin lacrima (tear) + -genic (producing). Earliest documented use: 1907. Two related words are lachrymose and lachrymal.

USAGE:

“For there is no more lachrymogenic experience than the school Nativity play -- to see one’s little darling, enrobed in tea-towel/pashmina, clutching toy sheep/live special breed etc.”
Gill Hornby; Hankies at the Ready as the Nativity Season Arrives; The Daily Telegraph (London, UK); Dec 12, 2009.

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