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This week's theme: words derived from the names of mythical creatures.
centaur (SEN-tor) noun
1. An expert horse rider.
2. An unnatural creation made of disparate entities.
[After Centaur, a race of monsters having the torso of a human and lower
body of a horse. Also, early Greek literature depicted Centaurs as a tribe
from Thessaly whose members were skilled horse riders.]
Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=centaur
-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)
"When Claire is on a horse, she loses her limp and is in charge of the
universe, a centaur."
Michael Ondaatje; Divisadero; Knopf; 2007.
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