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Post time 18-5-2017 05:35 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
Claque
Claque means “a group hired to applaud at a performance” or “a group of
sycophants .” A member of a claque can be called a claqueur . People have been paid to show enthusiasm at performances since ancient times, and the practice went from Greece and Rome to France in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Claque is the French word for “slap” or “smack.” It came to English in the mid-1800s:
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Post time 18-5-2017 05:37 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
Behoove
Behoove means “to be necessary, proper, or advantageous for.” It’s a word that is as old as English itself, having come from Old English into modern use. The earliest known sense of behoove goes back to the 9th century and is now obsolete: “require, to have need of.” The sense of the word that is still used today has been in continual use for the past 800 years.
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Post time 18-5-2017 05:38 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
Sycophant
Sycophant means “a servile self-seeking flatterer,” or a person who praises powerful people in order to gain their approval.
The term comes from the Greek word
sykophantēs, which meant “slanderer,” a combination of two other words:
sykon (“fig”) and phanein (“to show or reveal”).
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Post time 18-5-2017 05:40 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
Salacious
The word means "arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination”
Salacious has a fascinating origin; the word comes from the Latin word salax (“lustful” or “fond of leaping”), which in turn comes from salire (meaning “to leap”). The word shares an etymological connection with a number of words which now have little semantic connection to salaciousness, such as assail (“to assault”), desultory (“marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose”), and resilient “tending to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change”).
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Post time 18-5-2017 05:42 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
Nepotism
Nepotism means “favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship,” but its original English meaning reveals the Latin source of the word: “favoritism shown to nephews.” It comes from the Italian word for “nephew,” nepote , going back to the Latin forms nepot- , nepos meaning “grandson” or “nephew.” It was used in a book about papal favoritism to family members and especially nephews, written in Rome in 1667 and entitled Il Nepotismo di Roma ; the word spread from Italian to French and then to English.
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Post time 18-5-2017 05:44 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
Bête noire
means “a person or thing strongly detested or avoided,” and comes from the French words that literally mean “black beast.” The
circumflex accent on the “ê” in modern French often stands for the letter “s” that had been used in older spellings of words, and, indeed, the English word
beast derives from the Old French word
beste.
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'Ingenues
Ingenue came to English from French in the 1800s. The French word was an adjective that means “ingenuous ,” or “showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness.” In English, ingenue became a noun. Both words derive from the same Latin root, ingenuus , which means “native” or “freeborn,” which carried the connotation of the noble, honest, and frank character ascribed to freeborn Romans. In English, disingenuous meaning “deceitful” is more frequently used than
ingenuous.
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Conundrum
Conundrum means “a confusing or difficult problem.” Originally, it meant “a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun.” Despite the fact that it looks like a word that entered English from Latin, it’s possible that it is a faux Latin word, invented by students at Oxford in the 1600s during the time when Latin was the academic lingua franca.

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Post time 18-5-2017 10:11 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
Hashrate
The number of hashes that can be performed by a bitcoin miner in a given period of time (usually a second).
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Post time 18-5-2017 10:12 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
P2P
Peer-to-peer (P2P ) refers to the decentralized interactions that happen between at least two parties in a highly interconnected network. P2P participants deal directly with each other through a single mediation point.
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Post time 18-5-2017 10:13 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
ASIC
ASIC is an acronym for "Application Specific Integrated Circuit". ASICs are silicon chips specifically designed to do a single task. In the case of bitcoin, they are designed to process SHA-256 hashing problems to mine new bitcoins.
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Post time 18-5-2017 10:16 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
'In Omnia Paratus':
The phrase means "ready for all things"
The Latin word paratus comes from
parare, the root of the English verb “prepare” (and “prepared” is a good synonym for “ready,” especially if you’re about to jump off a high platform in formal attire).
A similar Latin phrase, semper paratus, meaning “always ready,” is the motto of the United States Coast Guard.
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Post time 18-5-2017 10:21 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
Chyron
(“a caption superimposed over usually the lower part of a video image, as during a news broadcast”)
The word is a proprietary term, and was trademarked by the Chyron Corporation in 1976 (the company is now known as ChyronHego), as a term for the crawling or stationary text that appears at the bottom of a television screen during a broadcast.
Chyron (which may be commonly found written with either a lower-case or an upper-case initial C) appears to be joining the ranks of many trademarked words which have moved into the realm of generic use (google , xerox,
granola and heroin are a few of the others which have made a similar transition).
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Post time 18-5-2017 10:23 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
'Monolith'
originally meant “a single great stone often in the form of an obelisk or column," but can be used figuratively to describe "a single unified powerful or influential force."
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Post time 18-5-2017 10:25 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
'Fascism'
Fascism means “a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.”
Fascism comes from an Italian word formed from the Latin word for “bundle” or “group.” In English the word from the same Latin root is fasces (FASS-eez), meaning “a bundle of rods and among them an ax with projecting blade borne before ancient Roman magistrates as a badge of authority.”
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Post time 18-5-2017 10:26 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
Bellwether
Bellwether has been in use in English for over 700 years, although the sense in which it is currently found is typically a highly figurative one. The original sense of the word was to describe a sheep or
wether (a castrated male sheep), who wore a bell and led the flock. From this original sense the word took on the meaning of “one that takes the lead or initiative,” and from there assumed its present-day sense designating “an indicator of trends.”
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Post time 18-5-2017 10:28 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
Acrimonious
Synonyms of 'acrimonious': acrid, bitter, embittered, hard, rancorous, resentful, sore.
Acrimonious (“angry and bitter”) can be traced to the Latin ācer (“sharp, biting, keen”). It has been in use in English since at least the beginning of the 17th century.
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Post time 18-5-2017 10:29 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
Agitprop
(“propaganda; especially: political propaganda promulgated chiefly in literature, drama, music, or art")
Agitprop has been in use in English since 1925, although the meaning has broadened somewhat since the word was first used. It was borrowed from the Russian Agitprop , which was itself a shortening of
Agitatsionnopropagandistski
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Post time 18-5-2017 10:36 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
'Ombre'
Hombre , the Spanish word for “man,” which in English is often used in a slightly more informal fashion to refer to a “guy” or “fellow,”
The phrase bad hombre has been in use in English since at least the 19th century.
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Post time 18-5-2017 10:38 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
Demagogic
Demagogic means “of, relating to, or characteristic of a political leader who tries to get support by making false claims and promises and using arguments based on emotion rather than reason.”
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