Word of the Day: EGRESS

One way out

egress (noun) - a means or place of going out; an exit [ee-gres]

BREAKDOWN: E- (out) + GRESS- (step) 

• egress also means to exit or leave [ih-gres]

“Our ingress into the world was naked and bare;
our progress through the world is trouble and care;
our egress from the world will be nobody knows where;
but if we do well here we shall do well there.” ―Longfellow

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