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Word of the Day for Thursday, July 17, 2008anodyne \AN-uh-dyn\, adjective: 1. Serving to relieve pain; soothing. But for the most part the British charts were clogged with anodyne ballads. He is alternately accused of being too much the warrior and too anodyne. Numbness . . . may have replaced pain as the complaint of our century now that aspirin analgesia, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents (NSAIDS), and other anodynes can take away the pains of the civilized world. An avid fisherman himself, McGarr shares Nellie's philosophy: "I do not merely fish for fish," she would say, "I fish for doubt's anodyne and care's surcease." This third novel by a reporter for The New York Times shrewdly examines love as an anodyne for rural isolation. Anodyne comes, via Latin, from Greek anodunos, "free from pain," from a-, an-, "without" + odune, "pain." | |||||||||
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