Word of the Week

Friday has a new category, Word of the Week. I will take the words from a list compiled by the editors of THE AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARIES. It is "ONE HUNDRED WORDS EVERY GRADUATING SENIOR SHOULD KNOW". I'll present the word along with the definition, and then challenge myself to use that word (in an appropriate manner) during the next week's blogs. Another change for my blog will be the elimination of a Saturday posting. (Unless something exciting happens). Blogs are like life, they change and morph and adjust and evolve.

Here is this week's word:

ABJURE

–verb (used with object), -jured, -jur·ing.

1. to renounce, repudiate, or retract, esp. with formal solemnity; recant: to abjure one's errors.

2. to renounce or give up under oath; forswear: to abjure allegiance.

3. to avoid or shun.

Origin: 1400–50; late ME < L abjūrāre to deny on oath, equiv. to ab- ab- + jūrāre to swear; see jury1]

—Related forms
ab·jur·a·to·ry, adjective
ab·jur·er, noun