Adumbrate (AD-um-brayt
) 1: to foreshadow vaguely : intimate 2: to suggest, disclose, or outline
partially 3: overshadow, obscure. Adumbrate
tends to show up most often in academic or political writing. Adumbrate developed
from the Latin verb adumbrare, which in turn comes from umbra, the Latin word
for "shadow." To adumbrate, then, is to offer a shadowy view of
something.
Redoubt (rih-DOUT)
a: a small usually temporary enclosed defensive work b: a defended position:
protective barrier 2: a secure
retreat: stronghold. Redoubt derives via
the French redoute and the Italian ridotto from a different Latin
verb—reducere, meaning "to lead back," the same root that gives us
reduce.
(Latin) Acquirere: to gain, to acquire.
