It's the word of the day for October 5th.
Today's word is adversary, spelled A-D-V-E-R-S-A-R-Y.
Adversary is a noun, and adversary is an enemy or opponent.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Psychology Today.
These students will not be better off if they know how to add up a grocery bill,
but have no clue about how to deal with an adversary from ten years ago who suddenly appears before them.
If the purpose of education is to prepare our children for the future,
perhaps it's time to factor in the survival approach of learning how to forgive.
If you consider an opponent as someone with whom one goes toe to toe,
head to head, or even mano a mano,
it may help you remember the meaning of the word adversary,
a more formal synonym of the word opponent.
Adversary comes from the Latin verb advertere, meaning to turn or direct toward,
which makes sense, even if two adversaries are not literally face-to-face,
their goals and aims are usually in direct conflict with,
that is, turned or directed toward, one another.
The vertere part of advertere means to turn, and it's the source of a number of English words,
including some that are obvious, such as inadvertent and adverse.
and others that are less so, like Anniversary and Vertibra.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.