Word of the Day for Friday, April 15, 2011
vociferate \voh-SIF-uh-reyt\, verb:
To speak or cry out loudly or noisily; shout; bawl.
And now the B.O. is vociferating that the Republicans are going to turn the U.S. into a third world country and that they want Granny to eat dog food!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
Julius continued to vociferate the awful cry until he roused Reuben and mine host, and waked the ladies, who began to echo him with all the might of female lungs.-- James Kirke Paulding, Childe Roeliff's Pilgrimage: A Travelling Legend
He replied audibly enough, in a fashion which made my companion vociferate, more clamorously than before, that a wide distinction might be drawn between saints like himself and sinners like his master.-- Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Vociferate derives from the Latin combination vox, "voice," and ferre, "to bear."
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