Word for the Day – Manumission

manumission

  •  Noun: Manumission
    1. the act or process of manumitting; especially : formal emancipation from slavery
  • Synonyms:
    1. emancipation
    2. liberation
    3. release
    4. rescue
  • Usage:

“However, especially after 1800, most manumissions involved select slaves, and they were often the mixed-race relatives, in one way or another , of the master.”

  • Encountered:

While reading Colors Matters edited by Kimberly Jade Norwood

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Word of the Day – Cupidity

Cupidity

  • Noun: Cupidity
    1. inordinate desire for wealth : avarice, greed
    2. strong desire : lust
  • Synonyms:
    1. Greed
    2. Avarice
    3. Covetousness
    4. Rapacity
    5. Materialism
    6. Mammonism
    7. Money-grubbing
  • Usage:

“Nevertheless, knowing the weakness of her husband, and more particularly his cupidity, she did not despair of bringing him round to her purpose.”

  • Encountered:

Reading The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

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Word of the Day – Loquacious

  •  Noun:  LoquaciousGarrulous
    1. full of excessive talk :  wordy
    2. :  given to fluent or excessive talk
  • Synonyms:
    1. Talkative
    2. Voluble
    3. Chatty
    4. Communicative
    5. Garrulous
  • Usage:

“Mr. Munck is a husky, loquacious man who lives about an hour south of Copenhagen.”

  • Encountered:

 While reading a New York Times editorial: Denmark’s Drug-Free Pigs

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