Daily Word Quiz AWHAPE a) to endure, to put up with b) to commit adultery c) to listen, to take heed d) to amaze, to stupefy with fear Answer below Today's Featured Word DERNFUL ADJ. sorrowful, mournful, dreary, gloomy, depressing ...c1591 obs. ETYMOLOGY from dern (n.) darkness + -ful FIRST DOCUMENTED USE c1591 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...The birds of ill presage this lacklesse chance foretold, By dernfull noise, and dogs with howling made man deeme..." From: The Mourning Muse of Thestylis By: Lodowick Bryskett, c1591 Daily Word Quiz Answer AWHAPE d) to amaze, to stupefy with fear ...c1300 obs.
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