Daily Word Quiz
BLIKE a) to close the eyes in sleep b) to confound or stump someone c) to shine, to glisten, to glitter d) to ignore, to evade Answer below. Today's Featured Word: CONSIMILITY NOUN resemblance, mutual likeness, similarity ...1680 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Latin consimilis alike, very similar FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1680 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...their consimility of disposition, there was a very conjunct friendship between..." From: Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries By: John Aubrey, 1680 Daily Word Quiz Answer BLIKE c) to shine, to glisten, to glitter ...a1000 obs.
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