This week's theme: short words.
wax (wax) verb intr.
To increase, to grow, or to become.
[From Old English weaxan. Ultimately from the Indo-European root aug-
(increase) which is also the source of auction, authorize, inaugurate,
augment, august, auxiliary, and nickname ("a nickname" is a splitting
of the earlier "an ekename", literally, an additional name).]
Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=wax
-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)
"The stars are out as we stand on Seven Mile Beach strapping on flippers
while Adrian waxes enthusiastic."
Carol Perehudoff; It's a Dogfish-eat-dogfish World at the bottom of the
Sea; Toronto Star (Canada); Feb 16, 2008.
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