This week’s theme
Words that look like misspelling

This week’s words
abjective
librate
psilanthropy

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(LY-brayt)

MEANING:

verb intr.
1. To oscillate, waver.
2. To be poised or balanced.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin libra (scales). Earliest documented use: 1623.

USAGE:

“He walks around the house to the window of Caroline’s bedroom, his heart librating in his chest like a seesaw.”
Kevin Brockmeier; Things that Fall From the Sky; Knopf; 2003.

“The big chief’s obscurely conflicting passions were not to be ignored because they librated in a tension that still balanced.”
Jonathan Bayliss; Gloucestertide; Drawbridge Press; 2013.

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

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