2022-07-26

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-07-26.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

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cull

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  • Latin colligō (I gather) <- con- + legō (I gather)
  • cf. coil, collect, intelligent, etc.

sublimate

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  • Latin sublīmō (I raise) <- sub- + līmen (threshold)

credo

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  • Latin crēdō (I believe)
  • cf. creed, credit, credulous, incredible, etc.

scraggly

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  • scraggling + -y

barter

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teethe

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  • from teeth

ping

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  • imitative
  • cf. pong

pester

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  • shortened from obsolete English impester, influenced by pest

shack

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lash

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reek

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  • Old English rēc (smoke)

haughty

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  • archaic haught (haughty)
  • perhaps influenced by high, height

complicit

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  • a back-formation from complicity <- Latin complicō (I fold)

cocoon

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  • French cocon (cocoon) <- coque (shell), whence coconut

tigereye

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striated

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  • Latin stria (groove)
  • cf. stria (a small groove)

facsimile

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  • Latin fac, imperative of facere (to make) + simile
  • fax (as clipping of facsimile)

porphyry

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  • Japanese 斑岩

laborious

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convulse

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  • Latin convellō (I shatter) <- con- + vellō (I pull)
  • cf. revulsion