This week’s theme
Verbs

This week’s words
actuate
parley
impignorate
declaim
divaricate

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(im-PIG-nuh-rayt)

MEANING:

verb tr.: To pledge, pawn, or mortgage.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin impignorare/impignerare (to pledge), from pignus (pledge, pawn, mortgage). Earliest documented use: 1639.

USAGE:

“First Cash Financial Services is a pawn shop. Yep, a good, old-fashioned pawn shop that makes small loans to folks willing to impignorate family heirlooms, silver, firearms, rings, musical instruments, construction tools, and other tangible personal property.”
Malcolm Berko; Pawn Shops Offer Sound Investments; Northwest Florida Daily News (Fort Walton Beach); Feb 18, 2010.

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