Word to the Wise: Abominate

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To "abominate" (uh-BOM-uh-nate) is to hate intensely. The word is derived from the Latin for "to deprecate as a bad omen."

Example (as used by Charles Tyng in Before the Wind): "I had no wish to study or learn anything, and as for Latin, I abominated it."

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