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The Word of the Day for November 2 is: 

hare   \HAIR\   verb
          : to go swiftly : tear

Example sentence:
          “I found myself, at three a.m. on a dark November night, haring in a 
rented car through the Irish countryside....” (Renata Adler, _Pitch Dark_)

Did you know?
          No doubt you've heard the Aesop's fable about the speedy hare and the 
plodding tortoise. The hare may have lost that race due to a tactical error 
(stopping to take a nap before reaching the finish line), but the long-eared 
mammal's overall reputation for swiftness remains intact. It's no surprise, 
then, that "hare" is used as a verb meaning "to move quickly." The noun "hare" 
(which refers, in its most specific zoological sense, to a member of the genus 
_Lepus_ whose young are usually able to hop a few minutes after birth) is a 
very old word. It first appeared as "hara" in a Latin-Old English glossary 
around the year 700. The verb was in use by 1719, and people have been "haring 
off" and "haring about" ever since.





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