word of the day

I've really been feeling like my vocabulary could do with a spruce up so I signed up for AskOxford's word of the day. Today's word is:

sparagmos

• noun [mass noun] the dismemberment of a victim, forming a part of some ancient rituals and represented in Greek myths and tragedies.

— origin Greek, literally ‘tearing’.

I'm really not sure that this was the kind of vocabulary extension I was looking for, but we'll see what tomorrow brings.

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