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discommode (dis-kuh-MOD) verb tr.
To put to inconvenience. [From French discommoder, dis- + commode, convenient.] "Much art today has abandoned the ambition to please the viewer aesthetically. Instead, it seeks to shock, discommode, repulse, proselytize, or startle." Roger Kimball, Art Without Beauty, The Public Interest (Washington, DC), Apr 15, 1997. This week's theme: red-herring words. ............................................................................ A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing. -Bret Harte, author (1836-1902) Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone." Invite your friends and family to join in the quest by sending a gift subscription of A.Word.A.Day. It is free! http://wordsmith.org/awad/gift.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/discommode.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/discommode.ram
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