word | abscond |
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definition | To depart in secret and hide. |
eg_sentence | They discovered the next morning that their guest had absconded with most of the silverware during the night. |
explanation | Wagner's massive four-part opera The Ring of the Nibelung begins with a dwarf absconding with gold which he turns into a magic ring. And in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins absconds from Gollum's caves with the ring he has found, the ring Gollum calls “my precious”; what follows is detailed in the three-volume Lord of the Rings. (Tolkien knew Wagner's opera well.) A young couple might abscond from their parents to get married, but sooner or later they must face those parents again |
IPA | æbˈskɑnd |
Tags: mwvb::unit:14, mwvb::unit:14:word, mwvb::word, mwvb::word-cloze, mwvb::word-reverse, obsidian_to_anki
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