Word to the Wise: Congeries

"Congeries" (kon-JEER-eez) – from the Latin for "to heap up" – is a collection or assemblage of items or parts.

Example (as used by Jonathan Miles in a New York Times review of Fall of Frost by Brian Hall): "The life of Robert Frost has been autopsied and re-autopsied so many times that, 45 years since his death, the congeries of appraisals can already be measured in layers, like geologic strata."

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