Daily Word Quiz
PEJORATE a) to consider, to ponder b) to defer from day to day, to procrastinate c) to make or grow worse; to deteriorate d) to announce, to presage Answer below. Today's Featured Word: NEVE also NEFE, NEPHE, NEWE NOUN 1. a nephew ...c900 obs. 2. a grandson ...c1400 obs. 3. a spendthrift, a squanderer ...c1440 obs. rare 4. a spot or mark on the skin ...1624 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY for n. 1-3: from Old English nefa a nephew, a grandson, a stepson for n. 4: from obsolete French neve, or from Latin naevus FIRST DOCUMENTED USE (Noun 1) "Hloþhere feng to biscepdome ofer Wesseaxan ægelbryhtes biscepes nefa." From: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle The Parker Manuscript, c900 EXAMPLE (Noun 1) "...by the which you required me to helpe Tho. Compton, your nephe, to some honiest ocopation at London..." From: Plumpton Correspondence: A Series of Letters, Chiefly Domestick, Written in the Reigns of Edward IV, Richard III, Henry VII, and Henry VIII, 1460-1522 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 • Lost Beauties of the English Language, Charles Mackay, 1874 • Oldest Words in the English Language, Herbert Coleridge, 1862 • A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, James Halliwell, 1855 Daily Word Quiz Answer PEJORATE c) to make or grow worse; to deteriorate; to worsen ...1653
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