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Today's Word "pandemic"

Everywhere epidemic on

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pandemic \pan-DEM-ik\ (adjective) - Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic.

(noun) - A pandemic disease.

"Once a pandemic is upon you, the prime focus has to be for you to extricate yourself from any urban areas or areas of high population density." -- Alex Haynes, 'The Apocalypse Handbook'

 

Pandemic ultimately derives from Greek pandemos, "of all the people," from pan-, "all" + demos, "people."


 

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