Worthless Word for the Day

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the worthless word for the day is: rusticate

[fr. L. rusticari, to live in the country]

[vi] to retire into the country; to stay or sojourn
in the country; to assume rural manners, to live a
country life

"I am so sorry... Lady Elizabeth is not going [to
London] this year, so I am compelled to rusticate."
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Alice or The Mysteries

"So alarming did the state of my finances become, that
I soon realized that I must either leave the metropolis
and rusticate somewhere in the country, or that I must
make a complete alteration in my style of living. "
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet