{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY February 17, 2019-----disavow

WORD OF THE DAY February 17, 2019

disavow    verb | dis-uh-VOW     Definition   1 : to deny responsibility for : repudiate   2 : to refuse to acknowledge or accept : disclaim   Scroll down for more about disavow      TRENDING NOW: feckless emergency national emergency apoplectic SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   The Illuminating History of 'Gaffer'       The News On 'Nontroversy'     The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 2/15/19       'Orient' or 'Orientate'?         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   What did you just call me?! A Quiz   Never be caught off guard     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   If you trace the etymology of disavow back through Middle English to Anglo-French, you'll arrive eventually at the prefix des- and the verb avouer, meaning "to avow." The prefix des-, in turn, derives from the Latin prefix dis-, meaning "apart." That Latin prefix plays a significant role in many current English words, including disadvantage, disappoint, and disagree. Avouer is from Latin advocare, meaning "to summon," and is also the source of our word advocate.     Examples of DISAVOW   It seems the college's president is now trying to disavow her previous statements.   "Last week in Beijing, ['Crazy Rich Asians'] director Jon M. Chu essentially disavowedevery word in the film's title. 'The film is a satire,' Chu told the state-affiliated Global Times. 'It's not about "crazy rich" or "Asians" actually—it's about the opposite of that. It's about how all those things mean nothing and it comes down to our own relationships and finding love and our own families.'" — Rebecca Davis, Variety, 29 Nov. 2018   Name That Synonym   Unscramble the letters to create a synonym of disavow: TCRETAR.   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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