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Jun 26, 2009
This week's themeMiscellaneous words This week's words eleemosynary obloquy palliate countervail excoriate This week's mail AWADmail 365 Next week's theme Slang 
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PRONUNCIATION:
(ik-SKOR-ee-ayt)
MEANING:
verb tr.:1. To severely criticize someone or something. 2. To strip off the skin. ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin excoriare (to strip or to skin), ex- (out) + corium (skin, hide).
Ultimately from the Indo-European root sker- (to cut) that is also the source
of words such as skirt, sharp, scrape, screw, shard, shears, carnage, curt,
carnivorous, hardscrabble, and
incarnadine.
USAGE:
"Why is she [Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, president of Philippines] being
excoriated for trying to implement her campaign promise?"Efren L. Danao; Give Light, Not Heat, to Cha-cha Issue; The Manila Times (Philippines); Jun 17, 2009. See more usage examples of excoriate in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. -Alexis de Tocqueville, statesman and historian (1805-1859)
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