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Today's word is valedictory, spelled V-A-L-E-D-I-C-T-O-R-Y.
Valedictory is an adjective.
It describes something expressing or containing a farewell.
Here's the word used in a sentence from The New Yorker by Justin Chang.
"Did I regret not catching a retrospective showing of 'Little Miss Sunshine' in a special valedictory program
of Sundance sensations from over the years? Perhaps, though not as much as I regretted missing
the screening of Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's 'Half Nelson' (2006). That's the title that I remember
most fondly from my first year at Sundance." Valedictory addresses delivered by valedictorians at high school
and college graduations are as much a sign of spring in the United States as baseball games and cookouts.
Though we don't know where the first valedictory address was given, we do know that such addresses
were an institution at some colleges in the U.S. by the time Noah Webster wrote his famous 1828 dictionary.