Words for Nerds--Gravamen

Gravamen is a word that can come in handy, especially if you know what it means. Do you know?

A. The part of a charge or accusation that weighs most heavily against the accused.
B. Men in the gravel business.
C. A witch-doctor.
D. A stumbling block, especially one that is unexpected.

By way of a hint, if the talking heads on the cable news programs limited debate to the gravamen, we viewers would save a great deal of time. A gravamen is indeed the part of a charge or accusation that weighs most heavily against the accused.

The straw men are the enemy of the gravamen. Without straw men, cable news programs could not run 24/7/365.

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