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Mar 19, 2019
This week’s themeWords that violate the i-before-e rule
This week’s words
reveille
facies
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with Anu Gargfacies
PRONUNCIATION:
(FAY-shee-eez, -sheez) 
MEANING:
noun:
1. General appearance.
2. In medicine, a distinctive appearance associated with a pathological condition.
3. In geology, a body of rock with specific characteristics.
1. General appearance.
2. In medicine, a distinctive appearance associated with a pathological condition.
3. In geology, a body of rock with specific characteristics.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin facies (face). Earliest documented use: 1398.
USAGE:
“The cholera victim no longer has any face: he has a facies -- a facies that could only mean cholera. The eye, sunk deep in its socket and seemingly atrophied.”
Jean Giono; The Horseman on the Roof; North Point Press; 1982.
Jean Giono; The Horseman on the Roof; North Point Press; 1982.
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