2022-06-27

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-06-27.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

word list


talk turkey

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notes

  • just like “talk frankly over Thanksgiving dinner”?

reprisal

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notes

  • Latin reprēndō (I reprehend)
  • cf. reprehend

hemorrhage

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notes

  • αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + ῥήγνῡμῐ (rhḗgnūmi, “I break”)
  • hemoglobin, hemorrhoid, hemophilia, hemophagous (hematophagous), etc.

relent

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notes

  • Latin re- + lentus (slow)
  • cf. relentless

panspermia

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notes

  • παν- (pan-, “all”) + σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”)
  • pancreas (κρέᾰς (kréas, “flesh”)), panorama (ὅρᾱμᾰ (hórāma, “sight”)), pandemic (δῆμος (dêmos, “the common people”)), panacea (ἄκος (ákos, “cure”)), pangram, panoply, etc.

fluke

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politic

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notes

  • as a verb

finicky

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notes

  • probably from fine

gendarmerie

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notes

  • French gendarmerie <- French (or English) gendarme (a member of the gendarmerie) <- French gens d’armes (people of arms) <- gens (people) + de (of) armes (arms)
  • but the OED says:

    in modern French the spelling gens d’armes is restricted to the historic sense


flabbergast

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notes

  • suggested that this is flabby + aghast