This week’s theme
Forgotten positives

This week’s words
capacitate
eptitude
mediate
maculate
nocent

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(MAK-yuh-layt, adj: -lit/-luht)

MEANING:

verb tr.: To stain, blemish, or pollute.
adjective: Stained, spotted, or impure.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin maculare (to stain, disgrace), from macula (stain, blemish). Earliest documented use: 1475.

USAGE:

“I had to maculate the gleam in my eye.”
Justin Phillip Reed; When I Was a Poet; Poetry (Chicago, Illinois); Dec 2019.

“I can make out its long-fingered wings and tightly ruddering tail, its maculate underside.”
Richard Smyth; There’s a Buzzard in the Air; The Guardian (London, UK); Apr 14, 2020.

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

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