{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY January 12, 2019- boycott

WORD OF THE DAY January 12, 2019

boycott    verb | BOY-kaht     Definition   : to engage in a concerted refusal to have dealings with (a person, a store, an organization, etc.) usually to express disapproval or to force acceptance of certain conditions   Scroll down for more about boycott      TRENDING NOW: intransigence intransigent white supremacist clemency SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   On 'Climatic' and 'Climactic'       The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 1/11/19     'Syllogism' — Video Word of the Day 1/11/2019       'Jerry-built' vs. 'Jury-rigged' vs. 'Jerry-rigged'         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   Liar, Liar Quiz   Test your knowledge of words for lies, liars, and those being lied to. In other words, everyone.     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   In the 1870s, Irish farmers faced an agricultural crisis that threatened to result in a repeat of the terrible famine and mass evictions of the 1840s. Anticipating financial ruin, they formed a Land League to campaign against the rent increases and evictions landlords were imposing as a result of the crisis. Retired British army captain Charles Boycott had the misfortune to be acting as an agent for an absentee landlord at the time, and when he tried to evict tenant farmers for refusing to pay their rent, he was ostracized by the League and community. His laborers and servants quit, and his crops began to rot. Boycott's fate was soon well known, and his name became a byword for that particular protest strategy.     Examples of BOYCOTT   "Chinese boycotted Norwegian salmon over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the late dissident writer Liu Xiaobo. They stopped buying fruit from the Philippines amid a dispute over territory in the South China Sea." — Associated Press, 13 Dec. 2018   "[Saul] Bellow … showed up at President Johnson's White House Festival of the Arts in the summer of 1965, which other writers, such as Philip Roth (a friend and follower) and Robert Lowell, boycotted to protest against the war in Vietnam." — Benjamin Markovits, The Spectator, 17 Nov. 2018   Test Your Vocabulary   Fill in the blanks to complete a verb that means "to protest or resist vigorously": r _ c _ l _ _ tr _ _ e.   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:

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