This week’s theme
Words that look like misspellings

This week’s words
venust
calender
wheal
exute


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PRONUNCIATION:

(ig-ZOOT/ZYOOT)

MEANING:

verb tr.: To strip or deprive of something.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin exuere (to remove, strip off, or divest). Earliest documented use: 1535.

NOTES:

Exute is execute exuted of “ec”: its spelling practices what it means.

USAGE:

“[He] was degraded, exuted of all his preferments [church offices], and fined five hundred pounds.”
Robert Southey; Surtees’s History of Durham; The Quarterly Review (London, UK); Apr 1829.

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