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 Jan 29, 2025 
This week’s themeThere’s a word for it This week’s words psychrolute empleomania rupestrian abulia siderodromophobia  
Cartoon: Dan Piraro 
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with Anu Gargrupestrian
 PRONUNCIATION: 
MEANING: 
adjective: Relating to, composed of, or carved on rocks.
 ETYMOLOGY: 
 From Latin rupes (rock). Earliest documented use: 1800.
 USAGE: 
“Set in a former 13th-century rupestrian chapel, the hotel has incredible
interiors, with towering arches, golden stone, and rooms carved into the
cave.” Zara Sekhavati; Matera Life & Death; The Independent (London, UK); Jan 12, 2019. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: 
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. -Edward
Abbey, naturalist and author (29 Jan 1927-1989)
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