2022-07-24

Published: 2022-07-24

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-07-24.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

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• dwindle
• refurbish
• duck out
• populace
• lace
• agate
• tune out
• quiescent
• preconception
• obfuscate
• fluctuate
• brook
• lynch
• waggle
• crumble
• pick
• heteronormative
• authorial
• shoo
• froth

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dwindle

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• frequentative or diminutive of dwine (to decline) (now Scottish)

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refurbish

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• re- + furbish (to remove rust from)

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duck out

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populace

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• Italian popolaccio (the common people) <- popolo (people) + -accio (suffix forming nouns with pejorative connotations)

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lace

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agate

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• Latin achātēs (agate)
• Japanese 瑪瑙

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tune out

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quiescent

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• Latin quiēscō (I rest)

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preconception

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• pre- + conception

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obfuscate

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• ob- + fuscō (I make dark)
• prefix ob- doesn’t get assimilated (any other example?)

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fluctuate

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• Latin flūctuō (I fluctuate) <- flūctus (wave) <- fluō (I flow)

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brook

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• often in form brook no something
• cognate with Latin frūctus (enjoyment), whence English fruit

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lynch

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• originally used with reference to the infliction of punishment by a self-constituted court having no legal authority, of the kind associated with ‘Judge Lynch’

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waggle

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• frequentative of wag
• cf. wiggle, wiggle-waggle

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crumble

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• diminutive of crumb

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pick

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heteronormative

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• hetero- + normative

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authorial

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shoo

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• instinctive exclamation?

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froth

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