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Monday, October 11, 2010

Today's Word: simoom

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noun
[si-MOOM] Play Word

1. a violent, hot, sand-laden wind on the Arabian and Sahara deserts: "They did their best to pack the remaining elements of their camp into jeeps as the simoom swept closer to their position."


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In Action:
"Stephen's heart had withered up like a flower of the desert that feels the simoom coming from afar."

James Joyce (1882-1941). Irish novelist and poet.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916

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