Friday, June 6, 2008

VOCABULARY WORD OF THE DAY

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ABEL DESESTRESS


Today's Word "vituperate"
vituperate \vy-TOO-puh-rate, -TYOO-, vi-\ (verb) - To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate. "The incensed priests...continued to raise their voices, vituperating each other in bad Latin." -- Sir Walter Scott, 'Ivanhoe' Vituperate comes from Latin vitupero, vituperare, to scold, blame, censure.

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