Tuesday, March 24, 2009


Word of the Day for Tuesday, March 24, 2009
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thaumaturgy \THAW-muh-tuhr-jee\, noun:

The performance of miracles or magic.
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The B.O. is showing off his thaumaturgy by making an extra $1,000,000,000,000 appear out of thin air for his dear friend Tim Geithner to squander!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Thaumaturgy comes from the Greek words for "wonder" (thauma) and "work" (ergon). A practitioner of thaumaturgy is a thaumaturgist or thaumaturge.

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