This comes from nowhere in particular except the dark recesses of my mind. Way back in my college days, my super-awesome friend Kara had a homemade sign in her dorm room that said:
Defenestration – the act by which the defenstrator defenstrates the defenstratee
which, of course, told you nothing about what the word means. But I was always taken with the sign, especially after looking up defenestration and finding out what it actually means.
Now go out and put your new word to use (but not necessarily commit defenestration).
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[...] This Mental Floss article garnered from this Reuters report puts our recent word of the day to excellent use: In one of the happier stories that I’ve read today, Reuters is reporting that a Polish man unintentionally saved a 110 lb. Saint Bernard who had been thrown out of a two-story window when he walked underneath it. The man, who was definitely caught off-guard (it’s hard to prepare for that sort of thing), suffered some bruises, and a little psychological shock from the incident. As for the dog, who’d been defenestrated from said window by a drunken owner, he seems to have escaped with nary a scratch (human cushioning will do that for you)! Thankfully, he’s been placed in a shelter and is destined for a happier existence. [...]