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| Activist: Rockets rip through Syrian city Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:08:20 EST Intense blasts echoed through the ravaged Syrian city of Homs on Monday after a weekend bloodbath ended in hundreds of deaths there, local activists said. |
| One dead, dozens injured in fifth day of Egypt clashes Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:16:48 EST Violent clashes near Egypt's Interior Ministry on Monday left at least one person dead and 72 injured, a health ministry official said. |
| Australians urged to flee flooding Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:08:34 EST Australian authorities on Monday pleaded with hundreds of people who had chosen to remain in a town in the path of rising flood waters to vacate their homes. |
| Aftershocks rattle Philippines; quake death toll climbs Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:39:33 EST A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Monday off the third-largest island in the Philippines, killing at least 12 people, an official said. |
| President: Tuareg fighters from Libya stoke violence in Mali Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:05:50 EST Tuareg tribesman who reportedly fought for Moammar Gadhafi in Libya have returned to Mali with weapons, stoking violence and forcing thousands to flee, Mali's president said. |
| Official: Libya's Saif Gadhafi could be tried within weeks Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:55:47 EST Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son of Libya's deposed leader Moammar Gadhafi, could go on trial "within weeks or months," Libya's interior minister said Sunday. |
| Hearing set for Italian cruise ship captain Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:39:15 EST A closed-door hearing to determine whether the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship should remain under house arrest is set for Monday. |
| Mexico's ruling party picks woman as presidential candidate Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:39:43 EST Mexico's conservative ruling party has picked a former education secretary as its nominee for the nation's top job. If she wins, she will become Mexico's first female president. |
| Elizabeth celebrates 60 years as queen Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:59:10 EST Sixty years ago Monday, a 25-year-old woman got a message that her father had died -- and that she was now Queen Elizabeth II. |
| Foxconn story shrouded in secrecy Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:40:20 EST We meet her by chance on the side of a road. She looks the very model of a Chinese factory worker: young, vibrant, dressed in the cheap brand-name knockoff fashions so common of poor rural villages. |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 06, 2012 is:
propinquity • \pruh-PING-kwuh-tee\ • noun
1 : nearness of blood : kinship 2 : nearness in place or time : proximity
Examples:
Many of the retirement community's residents cite the propinquity of the area's various cultural offerings as a significant reason for their choice of the facility.
"Canada was faced with the overwhelming propinquity of the United States; it was just next door -- for almost nine thousand kilometres." -- From Derek Lundy's 2011 book Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America
Did you know?
"Propinquity" and its cousin "proximity" are related through the Latin root "prope," which means "near." That root gave rise to "proximus" (the parent of "proximity") and "propinquus" (an ancestor of "propinquity"). "Proximus" is the superlative of "prope" and thus means "nearest," whereas "propinquus" simply means "near" or "akin," but in English "propinquity" conveys a stronger sense of closeness than "proximity." (The latter usually suggests a sense of being in the vicinity of something.) The distinctions between the two words are subtle, however, and they are often used interchangeably. "Propinquity" is believed to be the older of the two words, first appearing in English in the 14th century; "proximity" followed a century later.