Pronounced: uhn-TRACK, verb
Notes: I don’t think I’ve every run across this word (aside from vocabulary lists)
Yesterday’s word
The word reify means “to convert something abstract into a concrete thing; to make a thought or wish into an action or object” – I think of it as “to make real”
First usage
This word came into English in the mid-1800s
Background / Comments
The word comes from Latin rēs (thing) combined with -ify (an intensification suffix)
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