Today's Word "propound"
To offer for consideration
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propound \pruh-POWND\ (transitive verb) - To offer for consideration; to put forward; to propose.
"And does she not propound her riddles to us? Of each man she asks daily, in mild voice, yet with a terrible significance, 'Knowest thou the meaning of this day?'" -- Thomas Carlyle, 'Past and Present'
Propound is a variation of earlier propone, from Latin proponere, "to set forth, to propose," from pro, "for, before, in favor of" + ponere, "to put."
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