Word: Deign
Location: Facebook user description
Context: Harvard practically beat a path to His door and prostrated themselves before Him, begging that He deign to consider an international relations degree.
Definition:
-intransitive verb
1.To think worthy; to condescend -- followed by an infinitive.
2.To condescend to give or bestow; to stoop to furnish; to grant.
Use: I approached Beck with some reverence and he deigned to grant me an autograph.
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