Re: Words that piss you Off
"Gay" used as a pejorative.
"Cohort" used as a singular noun as a synonym for crony, rather than as a plural collective. (A Roman cohort was a group of soldiers, sort of like "platoon" or "company."
"Decimate" used as a synonym for "totally destroy." When the Romans decimated a village, they killed ten percent of the population, which hardly wiped it out.
"Infer" used as a synonym for "imply"--they are closer to antonyms.
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