abortifacients

[uh-bawr-tuh-fey-shuhnt]

a·bor·ti·fa·cient

[uh-bawr-tuh-fey-shuhnt]
adjective
1.
causing abortion.
noun
2.
a drug or device used to cause abortion: a biochemical abortifacient in pill form.

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Abortifacients is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

Origin:
1870–75; abort + -i- + -facient
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