This week's theme
Illustrated words

This week's words
felicitous
disprize
ineluctable
malinger
nimiety

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(dis-PRYZ)

MEANING:

verb tr.: To disdain or scorn.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old French desprisier (dispraise), from Latin pretium (price, worth, or reward). Ultimately from the Indo-European root per- (to traffic in, to sell) which also gave us praise, price, precious, appreciate, appraise, and interpret. Earliest documented use: 1480.

USAGE:

"And disprize them [jingles] as we might, they are an art form."
James Parker; Let Us Now Praise... Jingles; The Boston Globe; Dec 6, 2009.

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