2022-04-11

Published: 2022-04-11

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-04-11.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

word list

• reprehensible
• emblematic
• surrogate
• ensnare
• disentangle
• purport
• burnish
• propel
• mogul
• gauntlet

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reprehensible

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notes

• cf. reprehend

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emblematic

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• cf. emblem

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surrogate

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notes

• Latin surrogō (I put in another’s place) <- sub- (under) + rogō (I ask) (sub- gets assimilated before ‘r’ and becomes sur-)
• cf surrogacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogacy)

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ensnare

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notes

• en- + snare

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disentangle

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• dis- + entangle <- en- + tangle (a complication of threads, hairs, etc.)

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purport

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• pur- (a variant of Latin pro- (forward)) + portō (I carry)

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burnish

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• cognate with English brown

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propel

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• Latin pro- (forward) and pellō (I push)
• cf. propeller
• cf. プロペラ

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mogul

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notes

• each of the successive heads of the empire of the Great Mogul (in this sense, the form Mughal is now often preferred)
• now figuratively means “an important, influential, or dominant person”
• also “a bump on a ski slope formed by the repeated turns of skiers over the same path” (モーグル)

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gauntlet

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• French diminutive form of gant (glove)
• also means “an open challenge”