It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 1st.
Today's word is abhor, spelled A-B-H-O-R.
Abhor is a verb.
It's synonymous with the word loathe.
Something or someone who is abhorred is regarded with extreme disgust or hatred.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Variety.
While Anne's embarrassed by the slightest bit of conflict, disruptive Jenny abhorres obedience.
She's a role of Mentos dropped into her sister's placid diet coke life.
Those who shudder to think about having to clean dirty carpets might fairly be said to abhor a vacuum.
Nature is often said to abhor a vacuum as well, albeit a different one.
According to Plenists, there is always some matter or material floating around ready to fill a void.
Interior designers afflicted with horror vacui, or a horror of empty spaces,
abhor vacuums as well, being unable to tolerate empty spaces in artistic designs.
In each of these cases, the word abhor implies strong feelings of disgust and aversion,
a degree of distaste embedded in the words history.
The words Latin source, the verb abhorrere, comes from the prefix ab,
meaning from or away, and the verb horrere, meaning to bristle, shiver, or shudder.
Horrere is also the source of the English words horror, horrify, and horrible.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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