transitive verb 1. to give individually or with others to a common fund or collective effort.I’m happy to contribute my time and effort to such a good cause.They contributed considerable funds to…
WOTD: partake
intransitive verb 1. to take part; participate (usually followed by “in”).We all partook in the neighborhood block party last summer.He knew of his friends’ robbery plan, but he did not partake in…
“Patient zero” and “Contact tracing”
About this Word According to Helen Jenkens, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the Boston University School of Public Health, “The concept of ‘patient zero’ is highly stigmatizing and often wrong anyway. No…
“Essential” – Workers, Services and Businesses, Part 2
About this Word – in dictionaries. (Please share your love of language, with the social share buttons below; or with the feedback form at the bottom of the article.) Dictionaries traditionally provide…
Words of the Week
With the Wordsmyth Vocabulary Center activities, you can study these words, play games with them, and assess your knowledge of their meanings with a quiz. Click here to go to the Vocabulary…