Word of the Day: COLLOCATE

Placed together naturally

collocate (verb) - to often be used together or to appear or occur frequently together; to arrange in proper order [kol-uh-keyt]

BREAKDOWN: CO- (together) + LOC- (place) + -ATE (to make or do)

• collocation is the act or state of juxtaposing or grouping sounds, words, or things

• collocative meaning describes what a word means in a specific context and its association with other words to create a cohesive phrase

“Hypocrisy—in other words, the practice of lying about lying—shields us from seeing ourselves as we are: a collocation of fragments that fit together as a biological unit but not as anything else.” —Thomas Ligotti

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