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Word of the Day for Monday, May 4, 2009tyro \TY-roh\, noun: A beginner in learning; a novice. It's difficult to imagine a tyro publishing a book on medical procedures or economic theory. He was a sensitive, fine soul alert to the pleasures of being green, a tyro, an amateur, unwilling to close his mind before it had been tempted. And, though we were mere tyros, beginners, utterly insignificant, he was invariably as kind and considerate and thoughtful, and as lavish in the gift of his time, as though he had nothing else to do. Tyro is from Latin tiro, "a young soldier, a recruit," hence "a beginner, a learner." | |||||||||
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