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Bowl full of broken words: Words from history...
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Bowl full of broken words. On this blog I write about etymology which is my hobby , I like to connect words through their roots.The purpose is to make the job of remembering words a bit easy. Sunday, March 2, 2008. N): blindly devoted patriot; zealous adherent of a group or a cause. This word comes from a legendary French soldier Nicolas Chauvin who was famous for his devotion to Napoleon Bonaparte. He was popularized as a character in “La cocarde tricolere”. N): Excessive love or admiration of oneself.
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Bowl full of broken words: Palimpsest, palindrome...
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Bowl full of broken words. On this blog I write about etymology which is my hobby , I like to connect words through their roots.The purpose is to make the job of remembering words a bit easy. Sunday, March 2, 2008. Palimpsest (N): Parchment (Skin of an animal prepared for writing, painting) used for second time after the original writing has been erased. Something that is used again or altered but is still having the traces of it earlier form. More cognates (Not from barrons):. Palilalia (N): A speech di...
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Bowl full of broken words: Imponderable, preponderance , ponder, equiponderance and ponderous...
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Bowl full of broken words. On this blog I write about etymology which is my hobby , I like to connect words through their roots.The purpose is to make the job of remembering words a bit easy. Sunday, March 2, 2008. Imponderable, preponderance , ponder, equiponderance and ponderous. Imponderable (adj): difficult or impossible to assess, without appreciable weight. The engineer remarked “With such less data at hand the situation is imponderable”. Preponderance (N): the state of being greater in number.
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Bowl full of broken words: Loquacious anyone???
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Bowl full of broken words. On this blog I write about etymology which is my hobby , I like to connect words through their roots.The purpose is to make the job of remembering words a bit easy. Sunday, March 2, 2008. Loquacious (adj): talkative, garrulous. This word comes from the Latin root “loqui” which means “to talk”. Listening to her loquacious boyfriend’s drab talk made her sleepy. Circumlocution (N): the use of many words where fewer would do. Somniloquy (N): sleep talking. This word can be broken a...
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Bowl full of broken words: Sedentary and resident...
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Bowl full of broken words. On this blog I write about etymology which is my hobby , I like to connect words through their roots.The purpose is to make the job of remembering words a bit easy. Sunday, March 2, 2008. Adj): involving sitting. The root for this word is '. Meaning sit. Know the roots to get the fruits! Century is the reason that we have so many obese people today. The idea is of a person who has chosen to 'sit' i.e. settle in a particular place). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Bowl full of broken words: Millennium, Biennial, Perennial, Annals:
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Bowl full of broken words. On this blog I write about etymology which is my hobby , I like to connect words through their roots.The purpose is to make the job of remembering words a bit easy. Sunday, March 2, 2008. Millennium, Biennial, Perennial, Annals:. All the aforementioned words are derived from the Latin root “annus” which means “year”. The millennium bug was one of the most over-hyped bugs in the history of computers. Adj): taking place every other year, (of a plant) living two years. This word i...
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Bowl full of broken words: Vitreous, vitrify
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Bowl full of broken words. On this blog I write about etymology which is my hobby , I like to connect words through their roots.The purpose is to make the job of remembering words a bit easy. Sunday, March 2, 2008. Vitreous (adj): resembling or containing glass. Vitrify (V): convert into glass or a glass like substance by exposure to heat. Http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitrification. Http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitreous humour. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Immutable, mutability, transmute. Millenn...
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Bowl full of broken words: Vagrant thoughts inside...
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Bowl full of broken words. On this blog I write about etymology which is my hobby , I like to connect words through their roots.The purpose is to make the job of remembering words a bit easy. Sunday, March 2, 2008. Adj): Not clearly expressed, inexplicit, obscure. This comes from the L vagus 'wandering'. The CEO was a bit. About the specifics of the action plan, which he said would triple the firm's profits. N): whim, caprice or an unpredictable or erratic action, instance, course etc. Adj): stray, random.
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Bowl full of broken words: Abundant, undulating and inundate
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Bowl full of broken words. On this blog I write about etymology which is my hobby , I like to connect words through their roots.The purpose is to make the job of remembering words a bit easy. Sunday, March 2, 2008. Abundant, undulating and inundate. Adj):Overflowing; more than sufficient, plentiful. In natural resources, was a bone of contention among the neighboring countries. Adj): moving with a wave like motion, having a wavy form or surface. Something that follows a path similar to waves is undulating.