Today's Word "Adrenalize"
Published in Vocabulary
adrenalize \a-DREEN-uh-lyz\ (verb) - To excite and stir to action.
"After his girlfriend, his latest 'true love,' dumped him, Frank watched his roommate's spirits sink so low that he was convinced that nothing would adrenalize him, not even tickets to see his favorite band."
From adrenaline, a hormone produced by adrenal glands (above the kidneys), secreted when a person is excited. From Latin renes, kidney.
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