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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-1274/
- Published: 2023-07-26T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-05-24T18:57:52.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:22

The word for today is…

adumbrate (verb):

1: to foreshadow vaguely : intimate  
2: to suggest, disclose, or outline partially

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adumbrate?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : This word’s shadow rarely falls across the pages of casual texts. It comes from the Latin word umbra, meaning “shadow,” and is usually used in academic and political writing to mean “to foreshadow” (as in “protests that adumbrated a revolution”) or “to suggest or partially outline” (as in “a philosophy adumbrated in her early writings”). Adumbrate is a definite candidate for those oft-published lists of words you should know, and its relations range from the quotidian (umbrella) to the somewhat formal (umbrage) to the downright obscure (umbra). But it’s a word worth knowing, beyond a shadow of a doubt.

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