This week’s theme
Verbs

This week’s words
forswear
circumvallate
rowel
subduct
contund

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PRONUNCIATION:

(suhr-kuhm-VAL-ayt)

MEANING:

verb tr.: To surround by a defensive structure, such as a rampart.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin circumvallare (to surround with a wall), from circum- (around) + vallum (rampart). Earliest documented use: 1661.

USAGE:

“Delta State is completely circumvallated except at the west side, where the cliff of Mt. Cloud played the natural boundary.”
Yan Song; Online: Delta State; Xlibris; 2015.

See more usage examples of circumvallate in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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