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Show LEARN A WORD j EVERY DAY Today's word is OBVIOUS. It's pronounced ob-vi-ous. with accent ac-cent on the first syllable Is means easilj discovered, seen or understood, plain, evident It comes from the Iatln prefix 'ob." meaning among other things, to, toward, facing" and the Latin word "via" meaning "way." It's used like this "There's an obvious ob-vious reason for the railroad strikers' unwillingness to return to work upon no better pledge than a rehearing of their grievances by the same tribunal whose decision caused them to strike in the first place." oo |