Expand your vocabulary by learning a new word every day with our carefully curated - and often unusual - word choices.
Expand your vocabulary by learning a new word every day with our carefully curated - and often unusual - word choices. Click through to find what the word means, and examples of how it might be used.
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For example:
MULCT: to obtain by fraud, duress, or theft
A fine assessed as a penalty for an infraction is generally considered justifiable. Fraud, on the other hand, is wrong—it's just the sort of thing that deserves a fine. So in mulct we have a unique word, one that means both "to fine" and "to defraud."