This week’s theme
Where’s the rest of my word?

This week’s words
jaculate
cognize
plaint
suage
gratulate

This week’s comments
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Next week’s theme
Food as metaphor

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(GRACH-uh-layt)

MEANING:

verb tr.:
1. To congratulate.
2. To express joy at the sight of something or someone.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin gratulari (to congratulate), from con- (with) + gratulari (to show joy), from gratus (pleasing). Earliest documented use: 1567.

USAGE:

“Dr. Israel’s truncated declarations of how proud he was of his accomplishments came across as bland, self-gratulating and unfeeling.”
Walter Goodman; A Few Scary Pictures Can Go a Long Way; The New York Times; Mar 20, 1994.

“The wine flowed freely and after an hour I began to feel good and silently gratulated myself on the good fortune of missing out on each and every item that I had absolutely no use for.”
Ben Wicks; A Boyhood Idol Next Door Better Than Boots in the Closet; Toronto Star (Canada); May 28, 1988.

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