Word of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many on my landing page. Words have always fascinated me, and I am a fan of all types of word play, especially puns. I have a hard time not looking up a word that I am unfamiliar with or not sure of the definition. I like those authors that stretch me by throwing in unexpected terms.
- Adjective: Putative
- commonly regarded as such
- assumed to exist or to have existed.
- Synonyms:
- presumed
- presumptive
- reputed
- supposed
- accepted
- alleged
- assumed
- hypothetical
- imputed
- reported
- Usage:
- “When a former Navy SEAL with ties to a raft of Trumpworld figures landed in Haiti nearly a decade ago, his putative mission was to lead raid and rescue operations that would recover a missing American child.”
- Encountered:
- While reading an article on my Google news feed from The Daily Beast: How Ex-SEAL on Child Rescue Mission Became Island Kingpin The article caught my attention as I was imagining a modern day Lord Jim, not an article on corruption in Haiti, that is pretty much a given.