paregmenon \ puh-REG-muh-non\, noun:
1. the juxtaposition of words that have a common derivation, as in 'sense and sensibility.'
I admit, I was stumped with today's Word. I ended up googling "examples of paregmenon" in hopes of inspiration, and stumbled upon the sample "it will destroy the wisdom of the wise..." Wisdom evoked the imagery of owls (cliched, I know it), but then I had to figure out the action of destruction. My thoughts rambled something like How can I illustrate a wise owl destroying his wise-ness? What if I did a siamese-owl, one half destroying the other?
And I did.
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