Monday, October 23, 2017

Today's words

nuncupative /NUN-kyoo-pay-tiv/ - spoken rather than written : oral
I'd encountered this word before, but don't think I got its meaning quite right from context.
burke /berk/ -  1. to suppress quietly or indirectly  2 : bypass, avoid
Okay, from the write-up you can see how this word came into being and got these meanings, but there are clearly some steps of the linguistic journey missing.

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