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Words To Go is a blog for folks looking to expand and improve their everyday vocabulary.  Each day, three new words will be featured with their definitions and examples of their use.

Make a commitment to use the words both conversationally and in the written word. 


Words For Today:  February 25, 2012

Exemplary

Exacerbate

Intensify

Exemplary

Worthy of imitation, commendable.

Serving as model or pattern.

Your customer service staff perform their duties and tend to their customers in an exemplary fashion.

Exacerbate

To increase the severity, bitterness or violence.

To embitter the feelings of a person.

It seems that all she wants to do is exacerbate the problem.

Intensify

To make more acute; strengthen or sharpen.

He clearly chose to intensify his efforts to make sure that the work was completed on time.