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Horrific
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. 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. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
Example Sentences
- If so it was a horrific price to pay but nonetheless entirely beside the point, that is a matter for historians.
- And the horrific thing about the news was how the body count grew as the day progressed.
- But the recession has inflicted horrific damage on the government's accounts.
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Word Origin & History
horrific
"causing horror," 1650s, from L. horrificus "terrible, dreadful," lit. "making the hair stand on end," from horrere "to bristle, to stand on end" (see horror) + -ficus, from stem of facere "to make, do" (see factitious).
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