2022-09-14

Published: 2022-09-14

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-09-14.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

word list

• cadaverous
• inhibition
• burrow
• masquerade
• liability
• in a spot
• squander
• pratfall
• elfin
• listless

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cadaverous

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• Latin cadāverōsus (corpse-like) <- perhaps cadō (I fall)

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inhibition

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• Latin inhibeō (I hinder) <- in- + habeō (I have)
• cf. inhibit

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burrow

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• perhaps cognate with bury

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masquerade

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• “to pretend to be someone” from the more literal sense “to go about in disguise, as at a masquerade”
• Middle French, French mascarade (masked entertainment) <- maschera (mask) -> English mask

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liability

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in a spot

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• cf. ealier in a tight/awkward/bad spot

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squander

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pratfall

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• prat + fall

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elfin

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• obscurely from elf

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listless

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• archaic list (desire) + -less
• cf. lust, lustless