noun an extreme and widespread shortage of food.Widespread famine was the result of repeated crop failures. See the full entry
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WOTD: underestimate
transitive verb to appraise at too low a quantity, rate, strength, value, or the like.The press underestimated the boxer’s endurance and wrongly predicted the outcome of the fight.The building collapsed because the…
WOTD: elude
transitive verb 1. to avoid or evade by speed, skill, or trickery.The perpetrator of this crime has eluded the police for months now. 2. to escape from or remain outside of the…
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WOTD: lexicon
noun a dictionary or other inclusive listing of words.The anthropologist studied the remote tribe’s language and set out to compile a lexicon. the set of terms used by an individual, a particular…