A.Word.A.Day--scoria

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Jun 29, 2010

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Dirty words

This week's words
coprolalia
scoria

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with Anu Garg

scoria

PRONUNCIATION:

(SKOR-ee-uh) plural scoriae (SKOR-ee-ee)

MEANING:

noun:
1. In metallurgy, the refuse or slag left from smelting. 2. Porous cinderlike fragments of solidified lava.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin scoria, from Greek skoria (dross), from skor (dung).

USAGE:

"[The hiker] actually said the snow made it a bit easier, because it was a bit softer to walk on than the rocky scoria."
Rescuers Help Injured Man Off Mt Taranaki; Otago Daily Times (New Zealand); Jun 8, 2010.

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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. -Lewis H. Lapham, editor and writer (1935- )

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