This week’s theme
Verbs

This week’s words
calumniate
floccipend
exonerate
foozle
propitiate

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PRONUNCIATION:

(FLOK-si-pend)

MEANING:

verb tr.: To regard as worthless.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin flocci, from floccus (tuft of wool) + pendere (to weigh or consider). Earliest documented use: 1548. A related word is floccinaucinihilipilification.

USAGE:

“Harvey was penned off among the ‘black sheep’ in a profession prone to floccipend odd locks of thought from woolly-headed thinkers.”
William Thomson; Bacon and Shakespeare on Vivisection; Sands & McDougall; 1881.

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