Thursday, January 29, 2009

WORD OF THE DAY!

I almost forgot the word of the day:


malediction

DEFINITION: (noun) the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil.
EXAMPLE: In the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty," the princess is trapped in a death-like sleep because of the malediction uttered by an angry witch.
SYNONYMS: curse, denunciation

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