Today's Word "Agora"
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agora \AEH-geh-reh\ (noun) - A meeting place or marketplace.
"Jenny agreed that the university was the town's intellectual agora, while her house was neighborhood's the social agora."
From Greek agora "marketplace," the noun from ageirein "to assemble." The Greek word also underlies "category" from Greek kategorein "to accuse, predicate" comprising kata "down, against" + agoreuein "to speak in public." The original root (e)ger-, lost its initial vowel in Latin and Germanic languages. In the former, it turns up in grex, gregis "herd," underlying English "aggregate," "congregation," "segregate," and "egregious." With the suffix m, it became English "cram."
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