This week’s theme
Illustrated words

This week’s words
aristology
diablerie
heliophilous
lotic
umbriferous


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Next week’s theme
Eponyms

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PRONUNCIATION:

(uhm-BRIF-uh-ruhs)

MEANING:

adjective: Casting a shadow.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin umbra (shade, shadow) + ferre (to bear). Some related words are umbrella, adumbrate, and somber. Earliest documented use: 1616.

USAGE:

“I enjoyed trundling down one road in particular, the oak trees overhanging both sides forming an umbriferous canopy that shards of sunlight sliced through here and there.”
Rayyan Al-Shawaf; When All Else Fails; Interlink; 2019.

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