DailyWords

Date	Word	pov	Defintion	Ex
8/11/25	abase	v.	to humiliate, degrade	after being overthrown and abased, the deposed leader offered to bow down to his conqueror.
8/11/25	abate	v.	to reduce, lesson	the rain poured down for a while the abated.
8/11/25	abdicate	v.	to give up a position, usually one of leadership	When he realized that the revolutionaries would surely win, the king abdicated his throne.
8/11/25	abduct	v.	to kidnap, take by force	the evildoers abducted the fairy princess from her happy home.
8/11/25	aberration	n.	something that differs from the norm	In 1918, the Boston Red Sox won the World Series, but the success turned out to be an aberration, and the Red Sox have not won a World Series since.
8/12/25	abet	v.	to aid, help, encourage	The spy succeeded only because he had a friend on the inside to abet him.
8/12/25	abhor	v.	to hate, detest	Because he always wound up kicking himself in the head when he tried to play soccer, Oswald began to abhor the sport.
8/12/25	abide	v.	to put up with	Though he did not agree with the decision, Chuck decided to abide by it.
8/12/25	abject	adj.	wretched, pitiful	After losing all her money, falling into a puddle, and breaking her ankle, Eloise was abject.
8/12/25	abjure	v.	to reject, renounce	To prove his honesty, the President abjured the evil policies of his wicked predecessor.
	abnegation	n.	denial of comfort to oneself	The holy man slept on the floor, took only cold showers, and generally followed other practices of abnegation.
	abort	v.	to give up on a half-finished project or effort	After they ran out of food, the men, attempting to jump rope around the world, had to abort and go home.
	abridge	v. adj.	to cut down, shorten shortened	The publisher thought the dictionary was too long and abridged it. Moby-Dick is such a long book that even the abridged version is longer than most normal books.
	abrogate	v.	to abolish, usually by authority	The Bill of Rights assures that the government cannot abrogate our right to a free press
	abscond	v.	to sneak away and hide	In the confusion, the super-spy absconded into the night with the secret plans.