descry
b'\\n \\n \\n Merriam-Webster\'s Word of the Day for March 7, 2024 is:\\n \\n \\n descry • \\\\dih-SKRYE\\\\ • verb Descry is a literary word that, like discover or find out, means \\u201cto come to realize or understand something.\\u201d Descry can also mean \\u201cto catch sight of.\\u201d // In their research, the bryologists descried an association between a moss and the iron content of the rock it typically grows on. // From the tops of the high dunes, we could just descry the ship coming over the horizon.
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\\u201cWhere does one begin to learn about Dundee\\u2019s history and heart? Luckily, for a tourist, there is a place. It\\u2019s called Verdant Works, a former jute mill in a part of the city known as Blackness. (Dickens couldn\\u2019t have come up with a better name.) Once the employer of 500 people, the mill is a keyhole through which most of Dundee\\u2019s history can be descried. Unlike many factory museums, its story is made vivid by docents only one or two generations removed from its inescapable clutches.\\u201d \\u2014 David Brown, The Washington Post, 30 Sept. 2022
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If you\\u2019ve ever mixed up the words descry and decry, you\\u2019re not alone; even carefully edited publications occasionally mistake the former (\\u201cto catch sight of\\u201d or \\u201cto discover\\u201d) for the latter (\\u201cto express strong disapproval of\\u201d), as in \\u201cthe watchdog group\\u2019s report descried (oops: decried) environmental pollution by manufacturers in the harshest terms.\\u201d As always, we\\u2019re here to help you descry handy ways to tell confusing words apart. In the case of descry and decry, pronunciation is key\\u2014the s in descry is not silent. Descry sounds just like the English verb describe without its closing b, and the two share a Latin root as well, the verb d\\u0113scr\\u012bbere, meaning \\u201cto represent by drawing or speech.\\u201d When you descry something, it becomes known to you either by discovery or understanding, as though it were well-described. Decry, on the other hand, emphasizes cry when spoken, and shares roots with cry as well: when you decry something, you might be said to cry loudly your complaint.
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