Thursday, April 8, 2010

Vocabulary word of the day: "misprision"

This was a new one for me.

In a Huffington Post article about police shooting civilians in New Orleans, post-Katrina, this paragraph:


I hadn't ever seen that word before, so I went to dictionary.com and found:






In simple terms, official cover-up. So there you are. We learn something new every day.

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