This week’s theme
Words for diseases, used metaphorically

This week’s words
scurvy
apoplectic
jaundiced
metastasize
scabrous

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Next week’s theme
Words from the Bible

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PRONUNCIATION:

(SKAB-ruhs)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Rough: having small raised dots or scales.
2. Salacious.
3. Difficult to deal with; knotty.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin scaber (rough). Earliest documented use: 1585.

USAGE:

“There is nothing heartwarming or syrupy about Filth, a brash adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s scabrous 1998 third novel.”
David Archibald; Why There’s More to Scottish Cinema Than Dour Miserablism; Financial Times (London, UK); Sep 27, 2013.

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

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