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Atrocity
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
Example Sentences
- But the architects thought it was an atrocity; the design was totally antithetical to the Modernist cube.
- It's sad that my country is letting this atrocity happen.
- Images of inhumanity and atrocity are burned into our memories.
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Word Origin & History
atrocity
1530s, from L. atrocitatem (nom. atrocitas) "cruelty," noun of quality from atrox "fierce, cruel, frightful," from PIE *atro-ek-, from base *ater- "fire" + *okw- "see," thus "of fiery or threatening appearance." The noun meaning "an atrocious deed" is from 1793.
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