Word of the Day – Mendicant

Mendicant

  • Noun: Mendicant
    1. someone (such as a member of a religious group) who lives by asking people for money or food
  • Synonyms:
    1. beggar
    2. monk
    3. panhandler
    4. pauper
    5. vagabound
  • Usage:

‘”This mendicant insists upon speaking to you, and pretends that you will be very glad to see him.”’

  • Encountered:

Reading The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

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Word of the Day – Augury

Augury

  •  Noun: Augury
    1. divination from auspices or omens; also : an instance of this
    2. omen, portent
  • Synonyms:
    1. Bodement
    2. Cast
    3. Forecast
    4. Foretelling
    5. Predicting
    6. Presaging
    7. Prognosis
    8. Prognostic
    9. Prognosticating
    10. Prognostication
    11. prophecy
    12. soothsaying
  • Usage:

“This smile appeared to d’Artagnan to be of bad augury.”

  • Encountered:

Reading The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

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Word of the Day – Cabal

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  • Noun: Cabal
    1. the artifices and intrigues of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government); also :  a group engaged in such artifices and intrigues
    2. club, group
  • Synonyms:
    1. clique
    2. faction
    3. coterie
    4. cell
    5. sect
    6. junta
    7. camarilla
  • Usage:

“Does my lord seriously wish me to name any one who was mixed up in the cabals of that day?”

  • Encountered:

While reading Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

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