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Oct 13, 2016
This week’s themeVerbs This week’s words confute propine flocculate absolve objurgate Many ways to read AWAD o Email o Web o Twitter o RSS feed o Calendar o On your own website 
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with Anu Gargabsolve
PRONUNCIATION:
(ab-ZOLV, -solv)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To free from guilt, blame, responsibility, obligation, etc.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin absolvere (to set free), from solvere (to loosen). Ultimately
from the Indo-European root leu- (to loosen, divide), which also gave us
forlorn, lag, loss, solve, analysis,
resolute, and
catalyst. Earliest documented
use: 1475.
USAGE:
“His Eminence might also be able to absolve us of the original sin of
being Mets fans, which is purgatory on Earth.” Denis Hamill; Oh, the Pain of Mets Fans; New York Daily News; Jul 5, 2015. See more usage examples of absolve in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
You can't do anything with anybody's body to make it dirty to me. Six
people, eight people, one person -- you can do only one thing to make it
dirty: kill it. Hiroshima was dirty. -Lenny Bruce, comedian and social
critic (13 Oct 1925-1966)
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