摘要: Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for April 9, 2022 is: construe • \kun-STROO\ •...
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for April 9, 2022 is:
construe • \kun-STROO\ • verb
Construe means "to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in a sentence" or "to understand or explain the sense or intention of something in a particular way."
// The teacher asked the students to construe the Greek philosopher's statement.
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Examples:
"So NFTs … feel strange and novel because normal people don't usually construe monetary value in mere references to everyday things, like a cash-register receipt, or computer data." — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2022
Did you know?
Construe comes from the Latin verb construere, meaning "to construct." There is also misconstrue, meaning "to put a wrong construction (that is, a wrong interpretation) on" or "to misinterpret."
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