NADCI WORD OF THE WEEK - HOG

WORD: HOG [hog]

PART OF SPEECH: Noun

PRONUNCIATION: /hɒɡ/, /hɑɡ/, /hɔɡ/
[Hawg; Hog]

SYLLABLES: (1) hog

MEANING:
- Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.

-  a male pig that has had its sex organs removed and that is raised for meat.

- A greedy person; one who refuses to share.

SENTENCE EXAMPLES:
- Don't be such a hog! Other people have to eat too!

- The new software is a real memory hog.

- if I had known that my guests were going to be such hogs, I would have prepared twice as much food.

ORIGIN: Middle English hogge, from Old English hogg.

FIRST KNOWN USE: before 12th century.

SYNONYMS: cormorant, gorger, gormandizer, gourmand, glutton, overeater, pig, stuffer, swiller boar, cob, roller, oinker, piggy, piglet, porker, razorback, shoat, sow, swine, warthog, epicure, greedy eater, hefty eater.

ANTONYMS: dieter, nibbler, picker.

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NADCI WORD OF THE WEEK - PREROGATIVE

WORD: PREROGATIVE [prerogative]

PART OF SPEECH:  Noun

PRONUNCIATION: /pɹɪˈɹɒɡ.ə.tɪv/, /pɹəˈɹɑɡ.ə.tɪv/, /pəˈɹɑ.ɡə.tɪv/
[Pri-rog-uh-tiv; Puh-rog-uh-tiv]

SYLLABLES: (4) pre·rog·a·tive.

MEANING:
- an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like.

- a right, privilege, etc., limited to a specific person or to persons of a particular category

- a power, immunity, or the like restricted to a sovereign government or its representative.

- a distinctive excellence.

SENTENCE EXAMPLES:
- It was the teacher's prerogative to stop the discussion.

- If you'd rather sell the tickets than use them, that's your prerogative.

- It's a writer's prerogative to decide the fate of her characters.

- The royal prerogative exempts the king from taxation.

ORIGIN: Middle English, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, from Latin praerogativa, Roman century voting first in the comitia, privilege, from feminine of praerogativus voting first, from praerogatus, past participle of praerogare to ask for an opinion before another, from prae- + rogare to ask.

FIRST KNOWN USE: 15th century.

SYNONYMS: appanage (also apanage), birthright, right, privilege, advantage, appanage, authority, birthright, choice, claim, droit, due, exemption, immunity, liberty, perquisite, sanction, title.

ANTONYMS: duty, obligation

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NADIGIGS WORD OF THE WEEK - SHRIEK

WORD: SHRIEK [shriek]


PART OF SPEECH: Verb
- 3rd person present: shrieks;

- past tense: shrieked;

- past participle: shrieked;

- gerund or present participle: shrieking.


PRONUNCIATION: /ʃriːk/.
[Shreek]


SYLLABLES: (1) shrik


MEANING:
- to utter a loud, sharp, shrill cry.

- to cry out loudly and emotionally

- to make a loud, high-pitched sound.

- to say (something) or laugh in a loud, high-pitched voice.


SENTENCE EXAMPLES:
- the birds were shrieking in the trees.

- she shrieked when she saw a mouse.

- the children shrieked with excitement.

ORIGIN: Middle English shreken, probably irregular from shriken to shriek; akin to Old Norse skrækja to shriek.


FIRST KNOWN USE: 15th century.


SYNONYMS: blare, cry, howl, screech, shout, shrill, squawk, squeal, wail, whoop, yell, scream, squall, yelp.

ANTONYMS: murmur, mutter, whisper, peep.

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NADIGIGS WORD OF THE WEEK - THRONG

WORD: THRONG [throng]

PART OF SPEECH: Noun

PRONUNCIATION: /θrɒŋ/, /θrɔŋ/, /θɹɑŋ/
[Thrawg]

SYLLABLES: (1) throng

MEANING:
- a multitude of people crowded or assembled together; crowd.

- a great number of things crowded or considered together.

-  a pressing increase of activity.

SENTENCE EXAMPLES:
- Peter grabbed a megaphone and addressed the vast throng

- a throng of memories.

- this throng of business — S. R. Crockett

ORIGIN: Middle English thrang, throng, from Old English thrang, gethrang; akin to Old English thringan to press, crowd, cognate with Dutch drang, Pressure, Old High German dringan, Lithuanian trenkti to jolt.

FIRST KNOWN USE: before 12th century.

SYNONYMS:
cram, crush, drove, flock, herd, horde, host, legion, mass, mob, multitude, press, rout, scrum, swarm, crowd, bunch, congregation, gathering, sellout
assemblage, assembly, collection, concourse, jam, pack, push, everybody.

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NADCI WORD OF THE WEEK - RAMBUNCTIOUS

WORD: RAMBUNCTIOUS [rambunctious]

PART OF SPEECH: Adjective

PRONUNCIATION: /ræmˈbʌŋkʃəs/ [ram-buhngk-shuhs]

SYLLABLES: (3) ram·bunc·tious

MEANING:
- difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.

- (informal) Energetic, noisy, boisterous and difficult to control.

- turbulently active and noisy.

SENTENCE EXAMPLES:
- The kids are being especially rambunctious today.

- That beach is often taken over by packs of rambunctious young people, so don't go there expecting peace and quiet.

- Mrs. Tinkle, your son’s rambunctious behavior is quite common in children with unusually high intelligence levels.

ORIGIN: Uncertain. Probably alteration of rumbustious.

FIRST KNOWN USE: 1830

SYNONYMS: boisterous, noisy, raucous, rowdy, unruly, rough, rude, termagant, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent.

ANTONYMS: calm, quiet, restrained, silent, introverted, meek, shy.

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NADCI WORD OF THE WEEK - REPUDIATE

WORD: REPUDIATE [repudiate]

PART OF SPEECH: transitive Verb

• 3rd person present: repudiates;
• past tense: repudiated;
• past participle: repudiated;
• gerund or present participle: repudiating.

PRONUNCIATION: /rɪˈpjuːdieɪt/ (ri-ˈpyü-dē-ˌāt)

SYLLABLES: (4) re·pu·di·ate

MEANING:

- To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.

- To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.

To refuse to acknowledge or pay or honor (a debt).

- (In the past or in non-Christian religions) To divorce or separate formally from (a woman)

- To refuse to accept; especially : to reject as unauthorized or as having no binding force

SENTENCE EXAMPLES:

- the minister repudiated allegations of human rights abuses.

- Socialism had been repudiated at the polls.

- (law) Borrowers have begun repudiating their debt obligations.

- (law) The buyer is entitled to repudiate the contract within a reasonable period of time

- Mark 10:2

"And some Pharisees came up, and, in order to test Him and try to find a weakness in Him, asked, Is it lawful for a man to dismiss and *repudiate* and divorce his wife?"

- Philip was excommunicated in 1095 because he had repudiated his wife’.

- a generation that has repudiated the values of the past.

- She has publicly repudiated the government's policies.

- He published an article that repudiates the study's claims.

ORIGIN:

Late Middle English (originally an adjective in the sense ‘divorced’):

Latin repudiatus, past participle of repudiare, from repudium rejection of a prospective spouse, divorce, probably from re- + pudēre to shame.

FIRST KNOWN USE: 1545

SYNONYMS: deny, contradict, gainsay, disavow, forswear, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disconfirm, disown, negate, negative, refute, reject.

ANTONYMS: acknowledge, admit, allow, avow, concede, confirm, own.

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NADCI WORD OF THE WEEK - ASSUAGE

WORD: ASSUAGE [assuage].

PART OF SPEECH: Verb.

- 3rd person present: assuages;

- past tense: assuaged;

- past participle: assuaged;

- gerund or present participle: assuaging.

PRONUNCIATION: /əˈsweɪdʒ/; (ah-swayge).

SYLLABLES: (2) as·suage.

MEANING:

- to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses).

- to make (something, such as an unpleasant feeling) less painful, severe, etc.

- making something milder or better.

- to put an end to by satisfying.

SENTENCE EXAMPLES:

- His reply did little to assuage my suspicions.

- He was unable to assuage their grief.

- an opportunity occurred to assuage her desire for knowledge.

- the letter assuaged the fears of most members.

- vainly strove to assuage an implacable foe … — Edward Gibbon.

- assuage his thirst.

- He couldn't assuage his guilt over the divorce.

- a mother cooing to her toddler and assuaging his fear of the dark.

ORIGIN:

Middle English aswagen, from Anglo-French asuager, (Old French assouagier, asouagier,) based on (Vulgar Latin assuaviare,) Latin ad- 'to' (expressing change) + suavis 'sweet'.

FIRST KNOWN USE: 14th century.

SYNONYMS: abate, pacify, quiet, appease, quench,  allay, alleviate, help, ease, mitigate, mollify, palliate, relieve, soothe.

ANTONYMS: aggravate, exacerbate.

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