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Give me a consonant
S
Give me a vowel
I
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Today’s Word
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Today’s word is SKIFF, a noun. According to Webster’s New World College Dictionary, it can refer to a flat-bottom boat or a light wind, rain or snow.
Our Featured Artist
Roche is an illustrator, sculptor and painter from France who lives in Marseille. Soon after graduating from Gobelins Paris, where they studied animation, they directed a film called “Couchée” for French TV. They worked as an art director at Buck, a design agency in Los Angeles, and their art has been exhibited at galleries in Europe and the United States, including Leiminspace in Los Angeles and Barney Savage Gallery in New York. Roche received the Young Gun Award for illustration in 2020.
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