This week's theme: miscellaneous words.
diacritical (dy-uh-KRIT-i-kuhl) adjective
1. Distinctive; capable of distinguishing.
2. Serving as a diacritic (a mark, such as ^ or ~ or other accent marks,
added to a letter to distinguish it from a similar letter, for example,
to distinguish resume with résumé.)
[From Greek diakritikos (distinctive), from diakrinein (to distinguish),
from dia- (apart) + krinein (to separate). Ultimately from the Indo-European
root krei- (to sift or to discriminate) that also gave us crime, crisis,
certain, excrement, secret, critic, garble, and hypocrisy.]
Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=diacritical
-Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org)
"In a pertinent, diacritical chapter of this work, Stallabrass surveys
the paucity of art criticism in turn-of-the-century Britain."
Will Self; I Danced to a Decadent Drum; New Statesman (London, UK);
Jan 31, 2000.
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