This week’s theme
Words with initial silent letters

This week’s words
knavery
wroth
knar
wrick
gnomic

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(roth)

MEANING:

adjective: Extremely angry.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old English wrath. Ultimately from Indo-European root wer- (to turn or bend), which is also the progenitor of words such as wring, weird, writhe, worth, revert, and universe. Earliest documented use: 893.

USAGE:

“The fat man was so wroth that he took a vow to live on bread and wine till he had his vengeance.”
George R. R. Martin; A Dance with Dragons; Bantam; 2011.

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

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