Pronounced: in-SPIH-sate, verb
Notes: You may know the word (I didn’t), and it has an interesting history
Yesterday’s word
The word glossophobia is “the fear of public speaking”
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1960s
Background / Comments
Although I was able to parse this word correctly, it did not help me with the meaning. Our word came from the Greek word glosso (tongue; language) and phobia (fear). My guess had, therefore, been that it was a fear of foreign languages.
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