

Jul 12, 2017 This week’s theme

Short words



This week’s words

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aver

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“And I had done an hellish thing

And it would work ’em woe:

For all averred, I had killed the bird

That made the breeze to blow.”

Coleridge

(nerk: fool) Cartoon: Jantoo Short words A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg



aver PRONUNCIATION: (uh-VUHR)

MEANING: verb intr.: To affirm; to assert; to allege.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old French averer, from Latin ad- (to) + verus (true). Earliest documented use: 1380.

USAGE:

Brazil’s Worrying Change of Finance Ministers; The Economist (London, UK); Dec 19, 2015.



See more usage examples of “‘Our biggest challenge is fiscal,’ he averred during a press conference ... Markets are not so sure.”Brazil’s Worrying Change of Finance Ministers;(London, UK); Dec 19, 2015.See more usage examples of aver in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (12 Jul 1817-1862)





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