

Oct 11, 2016 This week’s theme

Verbs



This week’s words

confute

propine

flocculate

absolve

objurgate



Read it today Verbs A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg



propine PRONUNCIATION: (pro-PEEN, PYN)

MEANING: verb tr.: To gift, tip, or pledge.

noun: A gift or tip.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin propinare (to drink to someone’s health, to present), from Greek propinein (to drink first, to give), from pro- (for, before) + pinein (to drink). Earliest documented use: 1448.

USAGE: “The priests of a neighbouring convent, in expectation of the ample donation ... which Cedric had propined, attended upon the car.”

Walter Scott; Ivanhoe; A. Constable & Co.; 1820.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Most men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed off wings where he never ventures. -Fran�ois Mauriac, writer, Nobel laureate (11 Oct 1885-1970)



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