It's the Word of the Day podcast for March 18th.
Today's word is admonish, spelled A-D-M-O-N-I-S-H.
Admonish is a verb.
To admonish someone is to express warning or disapproval towards them,
or to urge them to do something.
Here's the word used in a sentence from The New Yorker by Jelani Cobb.
My parents admonished me and my siblings to stay away from the windows.
We won't admonish you if you don't know the origins of the word admonish.
This word, along with its archaic synonym, monish, likely traces back to the Latin verb monere,
meaning to bring to the notice of, to remind and to warn.
Among monere's other English descendants are monitor, premonition, monument, and monster.
Admonishing someone for, say, being late hardly risks being labeled a monster, however.
While the word rebuke suggests sternness and severity, admonish usually suggests friendly,
gentle, or earnest criticizing done in the spirit of counseling or instructing.
With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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