This week we continue our vocabulary-building series, “The Closing Word.” Each week we provide a new word to help build your vocabulary and show you an example of how to use it.
This week’s closing word:
execration
Pronounced: (ex-uh-CRAY-shun)
Noun:
1. hate coupled with disgust
2. an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
3. the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated
From Vocabulary.com: “Use the word execration when you talk about something that’s yelled or muttered angrily. When you declare, “May the god Apollo strike you down for saying that!” it’s an execration. The person at whom you hurl the execration can also be called an execration, or an object of condemnation. The root word is execrari, which means “to hate or curse” in Latin.”
Example:
“Hurling execrations at the homeless population downtown won’t help solve the issue. In fact, it will only inflame the situation.”
