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Today's word is enhance.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enhance

Enhance Has Latin Roots

When enhance was borrowed into English in the 13th century, it meant to raise. That sense, though now obsolete, provides a clue about the origins of the word. Spelled enhauncen in Middle English, the word comes to us from Anglo-French enhaucer or enhauncer ("to raise"), which can be traced back to the Vulgar Latin verb inaltiare. That word, in turn, was formed by combining the prefix in- with Latin altus, meaning "high." Although enhance initially applied only to physically making things higher, it developed an additional and less literal sense "to exalt especially in rank or spirit" and quickly acquired figurative senses for "raising" the value or attractiveness of something or someone.

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My English prof hated this word

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