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Gyro
- comes from the Greek word gyros meaning “turn,” and part of the confusion comes from the fact that it was borrowed twice into English: initially, it came as a shortening of words like gyroscope and gyrocompass and pronounced /JEYE-roh/. This use began in the very early 1900s. |
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Neophyte
(“a beginner”)
The word dates back to the 14th century, but did not see considerable common usage until the 19th. Although all the meanings of neophyte are concerned with a person who is new to something, until the beginning of the 17th century it had the specific meaning of “a new convert” (especially a convert to the Christian faith). The word may be traced back to the Greek
neophytes, meaning “newly planted,” or “newly converted.” |
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Suffragette
(“a woman who advocates for voting rights for women”)
'Suffrage' comes from the Latin 'suffragium' ("vote," "support," or "prayer").
Despite the similarity in sound,
suffragette does not come from suffer ; the word comes from the earlier English word suffrage , which is from the Latin suffragium (“vote,” “support,” “prayer”). The word has been in use since the late 19th century. |
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'L'état, c'est moi'
The phrase means 'I myself am the nation'
L’état, c’est moi means “I myself am the nation.” The French words literally mean “the state, it’s me” and are usually rendered “the state, it is I” in English. |
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Bodega
(“a usually small grocery store in an urban area”)
Bodega came into the English language from Spanish, in which language the word had descended from the Latin
apotheca, meaning “storehouse.” The earliest meaning of the word in English was similar: “a storehouse for wine, especially above ground.” In the 20th century the word had switched from storage to retail, as many of the small grocery stores in cities came to take on the name, particularly those that specialized in Hispanic groceries. |
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Svengali'
'A person who manipulates or exerts excessive control over another'
The word comes from an 1894 novel written by George du Maurier, Trilby , which features prominently in it a
maleficent musician and hypnotist named Svengali. |
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Contemporaneous
(“existing, occurring, or originating during the same time”)
The word, which comes to our language from Latin, shares a root (tempus , meaning “time”) with a number of other English words, such as contretemps (“an inopportune embarrassing occurrence”). Our earliest record of
contemporaneous in print comes from 1645. |
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Hadoi payah2 nk nyebutnya..ni kalo aku masuk spelling competition, masak nk mengejanya |
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pikit mata lebih kurang pejam mata sebab sakit tapi bukan sakit mata sebaliknya sakit hati |
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surety
This use of surety (pronounced \SHUR-uh-tee\)
The word has several meanings, including “sure knowledge,” a synonym of certainty , which is the way Trump used it. It is also used to mean “confidence in manner or behavior,” a synonym of assurance . In addition,
surety has the specific legal meanings “money that you give as a guarantee that you will do what you are legally required to do (such as to appear in court)” and “someone who agrees to be legally responsible if another person fails to pay a debt or to perform a duty.” |
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Chimera
The word chimera dates back to the 14th century, where it was used to refer to a fire-breathing she-monster from Greek mythology.
Because chimera is borrowed into English from Greek, it retains a pronunciation that’s more in line with Greek conventions than English conventions: /kye-MIR-uh/. The Greek word that gave us chimera means “she-goat.” |
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