Word of the Day: amiable

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Word of the Day: amiable

The word amiable has appeared in 60 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on March 12 in the obituary “Olga Murray, Who Changed the Lives of Children in Nepal, Dies at 98” by Richard Sandomir:

After a six-week trip to India in 1984, Olga Murray flew to Nepal to hike through remote Himalayan villages.

There, Ms. Murray, an adventurous, 59-year-old lawyer, encountered stunning landscapes and friendly people. But it was the children she met during her trek along rugged mountain trails from Pokhara to Siklis that enchanted her and went on to transform her life.

“They were poor beyond anything I had ever experienced — dirty, dressed in ragged clothes, malnourished, without toys of any sort,” she wrote in her autobiography, “Olga’s Promise: One Woman’s Commitment to the Children of Nepal” (2015, with Mary Sutro Callender). “And yet, they were the most joyful, funny, amiable little kids anywhere on earth. Their most fervent wish was to go to school someday.”

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