Word of the Week
missive (MISS-iv)—noun. A letter or written message, especially a formal or weighty one.
From the Latin missus, past participle of mittere, meaning to send. The same root that gives us mission (something one is sent to do), missionary (one who is sent), emissary (one sent out), and missile (a thing that is sent, usually with disastrous in…
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