This week’s theme
Monosyllabic words

This week’s words
wen
skail
slue
dree
wale

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(dree)

MEANING:

verb tr.: To endure or suffer.
adjective: Tedious or dreary.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old English dreogan. Earliest documented use: before 1000.

NOTES:

The word is sometimes seen in the phrase “to dree one’s weird”, meaning to endure one’s fate.

USAGE:

“Nobody could have thought that the death he was to dree would have been what it was.”
John Galt; The Annals of the Parish; 1821.

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