This week we continue our vocabulary-building series, “The Closing Word.” Each week we provide a new word to help build your vocabulary and show you an example of how to use it.
This week’s closing word:
Pronounced: (STIG-mah)
Noun:
1. a symbol of disgrace or infamy
2. a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease
3. the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil
4. an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod
From Vocabulary.com: “Stigma, from the Greek word of the same spelling meaning “mark, puncture,” came into English through Latin to mean a mark burned into the skin to signify disgrace.”
Example:
“We price your home right the first time so it does not suffer from the stigma of languishing on the market.”
