brightening

[brahyt-n]

bright·en

[brahyt-n]
verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
to become or make bright or brighter.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English brightnen. See bright, -en1

re·bright·en, verb
un·bright·ened, adjective


lighten; cheer, gladden, lift, hearten, perk up.


darken; deject, sadden.

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Brightening is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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.
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