ASPERSION

PRONUNCIATION: (uh-SPUHR-zhuhn/shuhn)

MEANING: noun:
1. A damaging accusation: slander.
2. The sprinkling with water, as in baptism.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin aspergere (to sprinkle), from ad- (toward) + spargere (to strew). Earliest documented use: 1570.
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ASPERSICON - a collection of insinuations

ASSERSION - accusation made while intoxicated

CASPER'S ION - a friendly but charged ghost