This week’s theme
Words described using their anagrams

This week’s words
listerize
adulatory
babble
metathesis
blate

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(AJ-uh-luh-tor-ee)

MEANING:

adjective: Praising or admiring slavishly.

ANAGRAM:

adulatory = laudatory

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin adulari (to flatter, to fawn upon, like a dog wagging its tail). Earliest documented use: 1587.

USAGE:

“An emerging ‘cult of personality’ around the Chinese leader has seen him being bestowed with a range of adulatory titles, and one local official recently likened him to a living Buddhist deity.”
Neil Connor; Xi Jinping Cleared to Rule for Life as China Abolishes Term Limits; The Daily Telegraph (London, UK); Mar 11, 2018.

See more usage examples of adulatory in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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