varia: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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	Word of the Day for Friday, February 22, 2013 varia \VAIR-ee-uh\, noun: miscellaneous items, especially a miscellany of literary works. This volume of Children's Literature differs from others in that its articles, varia, and many of its reviews were selected to illustrate a single theme... -- Edited by Francelia Butler, Children's Literature, Vol. 15 There go the women, off to dig up tubers or gather other varia, the chores getting done by groups that seemed to agglutinate differently each time you watched. -- Norman Rush, Mating Varia is the neuter or non-gendered plural of varius, a word transcribed directly from the Latin meaning "varied, different" and originally "spotted." Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help Words of the Day? How about words of timeless wisdom? Introducing our Quotes channel! "Life itself is a quotation." - Jorge Luis Borges Check out the Quote of the Day ›› When the language of life meets the language of literature: encoding Shakespeare in DNA From the birth of the sign to the development of new words, we've investigated many facets of our living language here at the Hot Word, but rarely do we have the opportunity to look at the language of life itself-DNA. As you might remember from 7th-grade science, DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid, the molecular structure that... Read more ›› Dictionary.com Word of the Day You are subscribed to the Word of the Day as: e-dict...@googlegroups.com Subscriber since: January 06, 2008 Unsubscribe from the Word of the Day To subscribe to the Word of the Day by email, please send a blank message to: join-wor...@lists.lexico.com ©2013 by Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607 Subscriptions to the Word of the Day can also be managed online   Tell a friend about the Word of the Day!