This week’s theme
Verbs

This week’s words
forswear
circumvallate
rowel
subduct
contund

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PRONUNCIATION:

(ROU-uhl)

MEANING:

noun: A small spiked wheel at the end of a spur attached behind the shoes of a rider and used to goad a horse.
verb tr.: To prick; to vex.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old French roele, from Latin rotella (small wheel), from rota (wheel). Earliest documented use: 1299.

USAGE:

“Against the luminous sky the rays of her halo were spikes of darkness roweling the air.”
Henry Roth; Call It Sleep; 1934.

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

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