chore
Use Chore in a sentence
noun
1.
a small or odd job; routine task.
2.
chores, the everyday work around a house or farm.
3.
a hard or unpleasant task: Solving the problem was quite a chore.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a small routine task, esp a domestic one |
| 2. | an unpleasant task |
| [C19: variant of Middle English chare; related to | |
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Chore
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| 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. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
chore
1746, Amer.Eng., variant of char, from M.E. cherre "odd job," from O.E. cerr, cierr "turn, occasion."
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Example sentences
Usually, hired hands, relatives or neighbors take over the chore.
Most people have a chore that they cannot bring themselves to do.
Now, gaining access to personal files is a chore for people who own an arsenal of computers, smartphones and tablets.
Some people will take to that chore as if they were born to it.
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