This week’s theme
Words that turn into another word when beheaded

This week’s words
scop
junto
hauteur
astringent
futilitarian

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(hoh-TUHR)

MEANING:

noun: Haughtiness.

ETYMOLOGY:

From French hauteur (haughtiness, height), from Latin altus (high). Ultimately from the Indo-European root al- (to grow or to nourish), which also gave us adolescent, adult, old, alumnus, altitude, enhance, coalesce, and prolific. Earliest documented use: 1628.

USAGE:

“A critic of immense hauteur, Jonathan Miller enjoys dishing it out, but is acutely sensitive to any whiff of criticism.”
The Miller’s Tale; The Economist (London, UK); Dec 15, 2012.

See more usage examples of hauteur in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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