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Today's Word "disconcert"

To disturb the composure of on

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disconcert \dis-kuhn-SURT\ (transitive verb) - 1 : To disturb the composure of. 2 : To throw into disorder or confusion; as, "the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy."

"In Natasha Prince Andrew was conscious of a strange world completely alient to him and brimful of joys unknown to him, a different world that in the Otradnoe avenue and at the window that moonlifht night had already begun to disconcert him. Now this world disconcerted him no longer and was no longer alien to him, but he himself, having entered it, found in it a new enjoyment." -- Leo Tolstoy, 'War and Peace'

 

Disconcert is derived from Old French desconcerter, from des-, "dis-" + concerter, from Old Italian concertare, "to act together, to agree."


 

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