LandaBooks Word Quiz Answers for 12/8/09: All My EXES
- Excise (from Latin accisa, literally a cut) is a tax (or cut) imposed on manufacture or sale of a commodity, as on alcohol or tobacco.
- An exigency (Latin exigentia, urgency, emergency) is a crisis or emergency. In cases of exigency, that government agency always provides all possible aid, short of actual help.
- To exalt (from Latin exaltare—raise, elevate) is to honor, praise, and perhaps raise to a higher position.
- To expunge (from Latin expungere, to blot out) is to erase, eradicate. She asked that her diagnosis as an onomatomaniac be expunged from her psychiatric record.
- It means to denounce viciously. The speaker excoriated the behavior of those who lied about the candidate (from Latin excoriare, strip off skin).
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