Words are very powerful — so become empowered by enhancing your vocabulary! Check out this week’s word ‘Objurgate’, a new entrant to the Oxford Dictionary

Objurgate

Verb

Definition: Rebuke severely; scold

Examples:

• The old man objurgated his son.

• In addition, he anticipated the modern poets in objurgating the custom of garnishing poems with archaisms.

• In ‘The high cost of low prices’, you objurgate the chain store for its business practices.

• But I highly objurgate (word of the day calendars are wonderful things) his stealing my boyfriend’s song.

Published in Dawn, Young World, July 9th, 2016