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Today's Word "juxtaposition"

Act of placing side by side on

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juxtaposition \juhk-stuh-puh-ZISH-uhn\ (noun) - The act or an instance of placing in nearness or side by side.

"One of the things that made the diary so poignant . . . is the awful juxtaposition of the ordinary and the horrific, the mundane and the unimaginable." -- Michiko Kakutani, 'When a Spirited Teen-Ager Faced the Unimaginable'

 

Juxtaposition comes from Latin juxta, "near" + positio, "position," from the past participle of ponere, "to put, to place." The related verb juxtapose means "to place side by side."


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