Fw: A.Word.A.Day--incommode

[Tim Strzechowski]

With reference to ATD:

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Subject: A.Word.A.Day--incommode


> This week's theme: red-herring words.
>
> incommode (in-kuh-MOD) verb tr.
>
>   To inconvenience.
>
> [From Latin incommodus (inconvenient), ultimately from the Indo-European
> root med- (to take appropriate measures) that is also the source of
> medicine, modern, modify, modest, and modulate.]
>
> Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=incommode
>
> -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)
>
>  "CCTV cameras are regrettable exigencies in unstable times. The only
>   innocent people they incommode are the poor devils who have to sift
>   through the footage."
>   Howard Jacobson; Thanks to New Labour, We Can Say Goodbye to Our
>   Civil Liberties -- and Polish Potatoes; The Independent (London, UK);
>   Jun 16, 2007.
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> Pronunciation:
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