2022-06-27
Published: 2022-06-27Words 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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- just like “talk frankly over Thanksgiving dinner”?
reprisal
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- Latin reprēndō (I reprehend)
- cf. reprehend
hemorrhage
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- αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + ῥήγνῡμῐ (rhḗgnūmi, “I break”)
- hemoglobin, hemorrhoid, hemophilia, hemophagous (hematophagous), etc.
relent
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- Latin re- + lentus (slow)
- cf. relentless
panspermia
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- 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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- as a verb
finicky
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- probably from fine
gendarmerie
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- 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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- suggested that this is flabby + aghast