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Wraith
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Example Sentences
- Now he is a stooped wraith unable to focus his eyes, bathe himself or walk without help.
- As listless, pounding or archly chipper music plays, still photos of one wraith after another surface and fade.
- And yet she may well remain in memory as the season's finest peasant girl and wraith.
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Word Origin & History
wraith
1513, "ghost," Scottish, of uncertain origin. Weekley suggests O.N. vorðr "guardian" in the sense of "guardian angel." Klein points to Gael., Ir. arrach "specter, apparition."
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