2022-09-25

Published: 2022-09-25

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-09-25.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

word list

• wring one’s hands
• grandstand
• aeroshell
• atop
• precession
• dreidel
• forlorn
• rocketry
• fait accompli
• switchblade

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wring one’s hands

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• in grief, despair, or anxiety

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grandstand

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• grand + stand

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aeroshell

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• aero- + shell

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atop

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• a (variant of on) + top

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precession

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precession
• Japanese 歳差

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dreidel

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• Yiddish dreydl
• ultimately cognate with trundle

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forlorn

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• past participle of obsolete forlese (to lose) < obsolete leese (to lose), which is cognate with lose
• cf. lorn (forlorn), past participle of obsolete leese
• cf. less, loose, loss, etc.

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rocketry

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• rocket + -ry (forming nouns with the sense “the use or characteristic behaviour of a kind of thing”)

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fait accompli

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• plural faits accomplis
• French fait (fact) + accompli, past participle of accomplir (to accomplish)

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switchblade

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