Daily Word List – 2nd April 2018 Meaning, Pronunciation

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exhort [ ig-ZAWRT ]

[ verb ]
MEANING :
to warn or advise earnestly; to warn strongly and urgently

wean [ ween ]

[ transitive verb ]
MEANING :
1. to accustom a young mammal to take its nourishment from means other than its mother’s milk
2. to cause to get detached from a habit or source of one’s attachment

truculence [ TRUHK-yuh’-luh’n-see, TROO-kyuh’- ]

[ noun ]
MEANING :
1. an inclination to fight ferociously
2. fiercely cruel actions

fructify [ FRUHK-tuh’-fahy ]

[ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]
MEANING :
1. (tr. v.) to make productive or make fruitful
2. (intr. v.) to bear fruit
4. (intr. v.) to become fruitful or productive

chaperon [ SHAP-uh’-rohn]

[ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]
MEANING :
1. (tr. v.) to accompany for the sake of propriety
2. (intr. v.) to act as an escort or guardian in public
3.(n.) an older woman, who, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or to a party of young unmarried men and women for the sake of propriety
4. (n.) an adult present in order to maintain propriety at an activity of young people
5. (n.) a 15th. century round headdress of cloth with streamers hanging down