This week’s theme
Verbs

This week’s words
elutriate
straiten
obvert
impend
demit

“There is no material with which human beings work which has so much potential energy as words.” ~Earnest Calkins
Send energy to friends & family

---

A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(im-PEND)

MEANING:

verb intr.:
1. To be about to happen; to loom.
2. To threaten or menace.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin impendere (to hang over), from in- (towards, upon) + pendere (hang). Ultimately from the Indo-European root (s)pen- (to draw, to spin), which is also the source of pendulum, spider, pound, pansy, pendant, ponder, appendix, penthouse, depend, and spontaneous vilipend, filipendulous, perpend, equipoise, pendulous, and pensive. Earliest documented use: 1627.

USAGE:

“While recession does not impend in any large region, growth is expected at rates dangerously close to stall speed.”
Lawrence Summers; Voters Sour on Traditional Economic Policy; Financial Times (London, UK); Oct 10, 2016.

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

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: