Today's Word "Opprobrium"
Published in Vocabulary
opprobrium \eh-PRO-bri-ehm\ (noun) - Disgrace or reproach brought on by extremely shameful conduct. The action causing such reproach.
"The opprobrium of pulverizing a row of mother's roses with the lawn mower cost Judith a week of freedom of movement."
Latin opprobrare "to reproach", from ob- "against, toward" + probum "reproach". Probrum is derived from Indo-European *pro- "before" + *bhr- the zero grade of *bher-/*bhor- "bear, carry, bring", found in many I-E languages, such as English "bear, burden, bearn", the "barrow" in "wheelbarrow", and Latin stems on fer- (fero "I carry").
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