up-BRAYD
(verb) To scold or criticize sharply.
She upbraided her son for breaking the vase and lying about it.
Fun Fact
“Upbraid” was common in Elizabethan English, and Shakespeare used it over a dozen times in plays like Othello and Hamlet. It’s harsher than a gentle rebuke but often used where correction is needed more than punishment.
SOO-pine
(adjective) Lying face upward; also used metaphorically to describe passivity or lack of resistance.
He lay supine beneath the stars, completely at peace.
Late Middle English: from Latin supinus, meaning “bent backward” or “reclining.”
Fun Fact
Supine is one of those words that straddles the physical and the metaphorical. It can describe someone literally lying on their back—or someone who’s failing to stand up for themselves or others. In politics or leadership criticism, someone might be described as supine when they’re passive in the face of injustice or pressure. It’s a single word that can evoke either serenity… or spinelessness.
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