FlexiLingo
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It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for October 23rd. Today's word is a sunder, spelled A-S-U-N-D-E-R. A sunder is an adverb or an adjective. It's most often used as an adverb, often with a verb such as tear or rip to mean apart
or into pieces. It's more rarely used as an adjective meaning apart from each other, as in standing with legs wide asunder. Here's the word used in a sentence from Hobart Mercury.
We cannot see erosion, but we know it happens. Artist Harrison Bowe's work is filled with hints of vastness, but he's also pointing to how water might carve a mountain asunder. To get to the root of today's word, it helps to take it apart and focus on the sunder.
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