Thursday, 30 May 2013

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Panegyric

pan-e-gyr-ic



noun :: An oration or eulogy in praise of some person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium; a laudatory discourse.



"Perry was right in the midst of a flowery panegyric on the wonders of the peaceful beauty of the scene when a canoe shot out from the nearest island." --Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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