Friday, April 15, 2011

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Word of the Day for Friday, April 15, 2011

vociferate \voh-SIF-uh-reyt\, verb:

To speak or cry out loudly or noisily; shout; bawl.

Julius continued to vociferate the awful cry until he roused Reuben and mine host, and waked the ladies, who began to echo him with all the might of female lungs.
-- James Kirke Paulding, Childe Roeliff's Pilgrimage: A Travelling Legend
He replied audibly enough, in a fashion which made my companion vociferate, more clamorously than before, that a wide distinction might be drawn between saints like himself and sinners like his master.
-- Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Vociferate derives from the Latin combination vox, "voice," and ferre, "to bear."


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