Ever have a day when you
feel like a barren wasteland, devoid of internal resources – lifeless? You have
just entered an AZOIC zone. (California drought, anyone?)
AZOIC – adj. 1) without any life (an azoic ecological zone); 2) designating
or of the earliest part of the Archean Eon, when there was no life on earth [the
ultimate Peace on Earth, right?]
Though
still used minimally as a geologic description for the age of rocks formed
before life popped up, it lost favor before the 1950s to “Archean,” or “Archaeozic,”
proving its azoic worth, I guess.
Now you can say you
learned something new today and you have a great “Z” word to amaze your
opponents in word games.
Read on for a few
lively quotes about how education, books, and spelling affects lives:
