Today's Word "succor"
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succor \SUH-kuhr\ (noun) - 1 : Aid; help; assistance; especially, assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress. 2 : The person or thing that brings relief.
(transitive verb) - To help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve.
"There was some talk about the perils of the sea, and a landsman delivered himself of the customary nonsense about the poor mariner wandering in far oceans, tempest-tossed, pursued by dangers, every storm blast and thunderbolt in the home skies moving the friends by snug firesides to compassion for that poor mariner, and prayers for his succor." -- Mark Twain, "Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion", The Atlantic, November 1877
Succor derives from Latin succurrere, "to run under, to run or hasten to the aid or assistance of someone," from sub-, "under" + currere, "to run."
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