This week’s theme
Vocab words

This week’s words
onerous
torpor
welter
invective
reticence

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(in-VEK-tiv)

MEANING:

noun: An insulting or abusive criticism or expression.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin invehi (to attack with words), from invehere (to carry in). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wegh- (to go or to transport in a vehicle), which also gave us deviate, way, weight, wagon, vogue, vehicle, vector, envoy, trivial, and inveigh. Earliest documented use: 1430.

USAGE:

“The author does have some good points ... but they get lost in a welter of invective and innuendo.”
Stephen Schecter; Singularly Peevish View of Canada; The Gazette (Montreal, Canada); Jul 22, 1995.

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

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