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Digress
Pronounced:
<di-gres>
Stop talking about the main topic. Change to another discussion.
My use:
I digress. Let's not talk about cats anymore. Let's talk about
birds.
Literary Use:
In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular
definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term. --Locke.
Memory trick:
Digress
di (reminds of) = di or two -
Mono means one
- di
means two
gress (reminds of) = progress
Start topic two and progress
Listen: Digress
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