{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY December 31, 2018- hark back

WORD OF THE DAY December 31, 2018

hark back    verb | HAHRK-BAK     Definition   1 : to turn back to an earlier topic or circumstance   2 : to go back to something as an origin or source   Scroll down for more about hark back      TRENDING NOW: nebulous synergy slumgullion endgame SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 12/28/18       From 'Syllabub' to 'Sundae': A Dessert Course in 7 Words     'Cherpumple': 3 Words Packed Into 1       The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 12/21/18         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   December 2018 Words of the Day Quiz   The final quiz of 2018!     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   Hark, a very old word meaning "to listen," was used as a cry in hunting. The master of the hunt might cry "Hark! Forward!" or "Hark! Back!" The cries became set phrases, both as nouns and verbs. Thus, a "hark back" was a retracing of a route by dogs and hunters, and to "hark back" was to turn back along the path. From its use in hunting, the verb soon acquired its current figurative meanings. In time, the variants "hearken back" and "harken back" were called, and—like hark—hearken and harken can mean "to listen." Harken, itself, is now used alone to mean "hark back."     Examples of HARK BACK   "In Tea With The Dames, [Maggie Smith is] joined by fellow dames Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, and Eileen Atkins; the women hark back on their early roles on stage and screen, talk about their ex-husbands and marriages…." — Hunter Harris, The New York Magazine, 26 Sept. 2018   "To stay connected with senior executives, she made heavy use of WhatsApp's group-chat function and called her group Table Talk, an effort to hark back to those early days at her kitchen table." — Sarah Ellison, Vanity Fair, March 2018   Test Your Vocabulary   Unscramble the letters to create a noun that means "a review of or meditation on past events": TTRCEEOPSR.   VIEW THE ANSWER           WORD OF THE YEAR 2018     Justice + 10 more   Read why justice is our Word of the Year, plus lodestar, epiphany, pansexual, and 7 more top words!   SEE THE FULL LIST            MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES          TRENDING NOW          WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:               SHARE:       View this email in a web browser   You are receiving this email because you opted in to receive the Merriam-Webster Word of the Day.   Unsubscribe from Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day   Manage your subscription settings   Merriam-Webster, Inc. 47 Federal Street P.O. Box 281 Springfield, MA 01102 www.merriam-webster.com

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