Category: Word of the Day

spaIr

noun
definition 1: a tall, narrow, cone-shaped roof or upward projection on a building or outer wall; steeple; pinnacle.
example: Construction crews at the World Trade Center hoisted a flag-bedecked spire to the top of the site’s signature One World Trade Center building Thursday.
definition 2: a similarly shaped natural growth, as in a new shoot of grass.
“An ook comth of a litel spire” (Chaucer, Troilus ii, 1335 [Middle English])
“How humble ought man to be, who cannot make a single spire of grass.” (unknown)

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dih sem b@l
transitive verb
definition 1: to disguise or hide behind a false semblance; conceal the true nature or state of.
example: She dissembled her real motives for visiting her dying uncle.
definition 2: to pretend of make a false show of; feign.
example: She dissembled madness to escape punishment.

intransitive verb
definition: to conceal one’s true motives, opinions, or feelings by a pretense.
example: “The spy must dissemble, must pretend to embrace a different opinion, laugh about a forbidden joke, must tell one himself.”

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wel t@r

intransitive verb

definition 1: to become involved or entangled, often overwhelmingly.
example: He is weltering in paperwork.
definition 2. to roll about or wallow, as in mud or the open seas.
example: The ship weltered in the waves lashed up by the violent winds.
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