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This week’s words
travest
anathematize
immiserate
betrump
manuscribe

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PRONUNCIATION:

(be-TRUHMP)

MEANING:

verb tr.:
1. To deceive or cheat.
2. To elude.

ETYMOLOGY:

From be- + French tromper (to deceive), which also gave us trumpery and trompe l’oeil. Earliest documented use: 1522.

USAGE:

“The site, ‘Funny or Die’, is political as hell. It’s currently helping a beTrumped and bewildered nation grapple with that stranger than fiction phenomenon.”
Steven Gaydos; Short’ Revealed Secret Plan of the Garynistas; Variety (Los Angeles); May 24, 2016.

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