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Dec 25, 2020
This week’s themeWords made with combining forms This week’s words misocainea polygyny audiophile deontology silvicolous This week’s comments AWADmail 964 Next week’s theme Words to describe people 
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with Anu Gargsilvicolous
PRONUNCIATION:
(sil-VIK-uh-luhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Living or growing in woods.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin silvi- (wood) + -colous (inhabiting). Earliest documented use: 1906.
USAGE:
“The four-camera survey method was the only method to completely detect
the ground-dwelling silvicolous community (bobcat, coyote, eastern gray
squirrel, eastern wild turkey, Virginia opossum, raccoon, white-tailed
deer).” Brent S. Pease, et al; Single-Camera Trap Survey Designs Miss Detections; PLoS ONE (San Francisco, California); Nov 30, 2016. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions,
and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes,
prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record,
prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy; and a thoughtless,
frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the
children, and the children yet unborn. -Rod Serling, writer of the science
fiction TV series The Twilight Zone (25 Dec 1924-1975)
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