Today's Word "admonition"
Gentle or friendly reproof
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admonition \ad-muh-NISH-uhn\ (noun) - 1 Gentle or friendly reproof. 2 : Counseling against a fault or oversight; friendly caution or warning.
"While Mike meant the comment on the smell of Frank's breath to be nothing more than a simple admonition, Frank took considerably more meaning to it, and it eventually destroyed their friendship."
Admonition derives from Latin admonitio, admonition-, from admonitus, past participle of admonere, to remind, or warn, strongly, from ad- (here used intensively) + monere, to remind, to warn.