AGREMENT

PRONUNCIATION:
(ah-GRAY-mahnt, -mahn*)
[the final syllable is nasal]


MEANING:
noun:
1. Formal approval, especially one given by a country to the proposed diplomat from another country.
2. Grace notes: notes applied as an embellishment on a piece of music.


ETYMOLOGY:
From French agrément (approval, agreement, pleasure), from Latin ad- (to) + gratus (pleasing). Earliest documented use: 1711.



AGREPENT -- the Attorney General regrets his previous malfeasances and wished to atone for them