Word Of the Week (WOW) is a weekly meme created by Heena Rathore P. (me), it’s a fun way to improve one’s vocabulary by learning new words every week.
If you want to participate then simply do a post with your WORD and leave the link to your post as a comment on one of my WOW post.
Here’s this week’s WOW:
Word: Arachnida
Part Of Speech: noun; plural noun: Arachnida
Pronunciation: uh–rak-ni-duh n
Meaning:
a class of chelicerate arthropods that includes spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks. They have become adapted for a terrestrial life and possess both lungs and tracheae, and many have silk or poison glands.
Synonyms: Arachnid, Class Arachnida.
Antonyms: None
Word Origin: modern Latin (plural), from Greek arakhnē ‘spider’.
Use in sentence: The Spiders are the most numerous and diversified group of the Arachnida; about 2000 species are known.
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10 responses to “Word Of The Week (WOW #9)”
I guess my daughte should learn about that word… she is suffering from arachnophobia.
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Heheh! Same here!:)
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Love these! I definitely could use more vocabulary terms in my life. 🙂
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Thanks… and same here! There’s always more room to improve our vocal… what say?
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🙂
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Just reading this makes my skin crawl – I have a serious spider phobia! Great choice of word, though. 🙂 Here’s the link to my WOW for this week: https://thestorytellersabode.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/word-of-the-week-wow-effervescent/
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I love spiders. I’m always the one in our house elected to remove them. Good word to introduce. Here is the link to my word this week:
https://milliethom.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/word-of-the-week-wow-6/
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