315: excruciate Oct 19, 2015

'Excruciate', meaning to "torment (someone) physically or mentally", is a "rare verb"*. Although most derivatives are listed as the same word, such as 'happiness' being listed under 'happy', in many dictionaries, 'excruciating' is listed as a different word because it is common.  *It is so rare, it would seem that Facebook and many other sites do not recognize it as a word