2022-12-18

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-12-18.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

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lowlife

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  • plural lowlifes

going

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  • “condition of the ground in terms of its suitability for walking, riding, etc.”

poultice

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  • Latin puls (thick pap)

superannuated

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  • Latin super annum (beyond a year)

piebald

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  • pie (the magpie) + bald (marked with white)

tureen

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  • originally a variant of terrine (tureen or an earthenware or similar heatproof vessel) < French terrine (earthenware vessel) < Latin terra (earth)

devotee

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  • devote + -ee (suffix usually denoting indirect objects of the verbs from which they are derived, but this suffix is employed apparently arbitrarily) < de- + vovēre (to vow)

gill

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  • U.S. /dʒɪl/
  • “a quarter of a pint”

chest

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veterinary

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  • Latin vetus (old)
  • cf. veteran