Build Your Vocabulary | Zeugma

/ Luanne Shernisky

Word of the Day

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2021

zeugma

[ zoog-muh ] 

noun

the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way, as in On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold.

Word of the Day Credit: Dictionary.com 

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