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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

Vocabulary exercises your mind.

 

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