Peter Sokolowski
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3d ago
Peter Sokolowski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Nurture is a verb.
Nurture is most often used to mean to help someone or something grow, develop, or succeed.
It could also mean to take care of someone or something that is growing or developing by providing food protection,
your mind for a long time.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the park record of Park City, Utah.
Parks are good for people, they nurture community, even alongside busy roads and next to dense housing, especially there, in fact.
When nurture was first adopted from Anglo French into English in the fourteenth century, it referred as it does in the phrase nurture versus nature, to training or upbringing, that is, to the care and attention given to someone or something that is growing or developing.
It wasn't until a century later that the verb nurture settled into the language, first with meanings having to do with feeding and caring for the people.
For young, meaning nourish had been nurturing for a hundred years.
The words come by their overlapping meanings etymologically.
Both come from the Latin verb nutire, meaning to suckle or to nourish.
The figurative use of nurture meaning to further the development of followed centuries later.
Mary Wollstonecraft applied it in her seventeen ninety two book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, writing public spirit must be nurtured by private virtue.
With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
It's the Word of the Day for August 7th.
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Today's word is invidious, spelled I-N-V-I-D-I-O-U-S.
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Invidious is an adjective.
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It's a formal word used to describe things that are unpleasant and likely to cause bad feelings in other people.
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Such bad feelings may include resentment, discontent, animosity, or envy.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from the New York Times.
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