Tim from Old Mission
Peninsula asked about the word fraught. It is often used in an ominous sense:
fraught with danger or fraught with anxiety. On the other hand, a situation can
be fraught with possibilities.
The word is related to
freight, and it shows up in a maritime context. Freight is the cargo assigned
to a ship. Thus, the word fraught is equivalent to loaded with or full of.
Earlier on, fraught was used
as a noun meaning a burden or load, based on the cargo of a ship, and as a verb
meaning to store or convey. In our day, we are left with the adjective form.
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