Literature Is Not Dead

It’s been far too long since I posted a word of the day. How you must be suffering! Well here’s something that should help:

Anodyne is an adjective that means serving to assuage pain, and though it’s a word I’d read before, I had no idea what it meant. It comes from the Greek, with the prefix “a” adding a negative to the word “odyne” which meant pain. So away from, or without, pain. It can also be used as a noun.

On his third shot of whiskey he began to feel the anodyne effects of the alcohol.

Ah, now isn’t that better?