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Article: PETER CHIACCHIARO IS READER'S DIGEST "WORD POWER"-FUL.(Brief Article)
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- Media Industry Newsletter
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- March 17, 2003
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The Time Inc. corporate research analyst (since 1999) is an expert wordsmith, in knowing all five definitions in min's March 3 contest celebrating RD's National Word Power Challenge for students that begins this Monday (March 24) in Williamsburg, Va. Chiacchiaro was the randomly chosen winner of a $100 American Express gift certificate for correctly defining: (1) Threnody means "lament"; (2) Sinecure is "a job requiring no work" (who wouldn't want that?); (3) Objurgate means "condemn"; (4) Avuncular is a person ...
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