I CRY I MOAN MY WORLD HAS NO RELIEF
MY ANGOR PLAGUES ME, EVEN IN MY SLEEP
angor
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING: noun: Extreme anguish or mental distress.
ETYMOLOGY: If you’ve ever been so angry, or so anguished, that you felt choked you’ve personally experienced the origin of this term. It comes from Latin angor (strangling, suffocation, mental distress), from angere (to squeeze). Ultimately from the Indo-European root angh- (tight, suffocating, painful), which also gave us anger, anguish, anxious, angst, angina, and hangnail. Earliest documented use: 1440.
SOURCE: A.Word.A.Day – with Anu Garg