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Feb 22, 2023

This week’s theme
Adverbs

This week’s words
memoriter
astern
sinistrad
agley
gratis

Adverbs are disappearing rapid.

Photo: Karen Gronau

A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

sinistrad

PRONUNCIATION:

(SIN-uh-strad)

MEANING:

adverb, adjective: Toward the left side.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin sinister (left, left hand, unlucky). Earliest documented use: 1803.

USAGE:

“The ascending colon ... turns sinistrad.”
D.R. Khanna & P.R. Yadav; Biology of Mammals; Discovery; 2005.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. -James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and diplomat (22 Feb 1819-1891)

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