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Dec 26, 2012 This week's theme Words from various languages that built the English language This week's words behoove ugsome abjure purlieu cumshaw Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg abjure PRONUNCIATION: (ab-JOOR) MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To avoid or abstain from. 2. To renounce under oath. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin abjurare (to deny on oath), from ab- (away) + jurare (to swear). Earliest documented use: 1430. USAGE: "Many modern writers abjure the power of stories in their work, banish them to the suburbs of literature, drive them out toward the lower pastures of the lesser moons." Pat Conroy; Interpreting the World Through Story; The Writer (Waukesha, Wisconsin); Jun 2012. Explore "abjure" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders. -Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941)

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