This week’s theme
Verbs

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devolve
edify
parlay
espouse
acerbate

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PRONUNCIATION:

(ED-i-fy)

MEANING:

verb tr.: To instruct in order to improve the mind or character.

ETYMOLOGY:

Via French from Latin aedificare (to build), from aedis (building) + facere (make). Earliest documented use: 1340.

USAGE:

“If [translator Jay Rubin’s] suggestion [not to read literature in translation] were to be heeded, most of us would not be edified by the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Albert Camus, Italo Calvino, and Saadat Hasan Manto.”
G. Seetharaman; Despite Pitfalls, Publishers Bet on Translated Vernacular Indian Literature; The Economic Times (New Delhi, India); Dec 16, 2013.

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