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Oct 23, 2019
This week’s themeThere’s a word for it
This week’s words
agerasia
aposiopesis
marcescent
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with Anu Gargmarcescent
PRONUNCIATION:
(mahr-SES-uhnt) 
MEANING:
adjective: Withering without falling off.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin marcescent- (beginning to wither), present participle of marcescere (to wither), from marcere (to wither). Earliest documented use: 1727.
USAGE:
“She took up scissors and trimmed the hair above his ears and clipped away the frizzy marcescent strands languishing in the desert of his bald head.”
Keith Quincy; Samuel; Xlibris; 2002.
Keith Quincy; Samuel; Xlibris; 2002.
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