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Feb 15, 2019
This week’s themeWords that aren’t what they appear to be This week’s words bloodnoun sodalist reprobate appurtenance appose A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Gargappose
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
verb tr.: To place next to or side by side: to juxtapose.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin apponere (to put near), from ad- (near) + ponere (to put).
Ultimately from the Indo-European root apo- (off or away), which is
also the source of after, off, awkward, post, and puny. Earliest
documented use: 1593.
USAGE:
“You look at m/e, you smile at m/e infinitely, m/y eyes are apposed to your
eyes, / am seized by unnameable joy and horror.” Monique Wittig (translation David Le Vay); The Lesbian Body; Peter Owen; 1975. See more usage examples of appose in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The question is not Can they reason?, nor Can they talk?, but Can they
suffer? -Jeremy Bentham, jurist and philosopher (15 Feb 1748-1832)
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