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Words with Elise: "Seminal"

This feels like one half of a movement.

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So seminal is a word that you probably hear a lot—it’s typically used in the context of a chain of thought, or piece of literature. Seminal movement, seminal book, etc. So the root of seminal is semen, or seed. It’s the same root as seminary—which is interesting to me—semen (seed), seminarius (of seed), seminarium (seed plot). So you get this…

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