Words are our primary means of expressing ideas. As such, they are natural means of subversion of liberty, which is, among other things, an idea. This is the inaugural episode for an ongoing series of episodes called "Wordy Wednesday". Sometimes, we'll dive into high-impact words and spend a full length episode digging into the word and the ideas behind it. Other days, like this episode, we will simply define some old words that I ran into while studying for a future or past episode. These will be shorter episodes, but hopefully will help us understand the documents we are looking at better.
Today we cover the following words: solicitude, specious, weal, antipathy, umbrage, odium, caprice
Johnson's Dictionary Online - https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/
Websters 1828 Dictionary - http://www.webstersdictionary1828.com/
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