Words for the Day; please share

by compound complex 182 Replies latest jw friends

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    I looked already.

    Right on the mark, CoCo.

    All ready/already.

    I used to dread those exams!

    Sylvia

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    LoveUni:

    Thanks for the gift . . .

    On an episode of Da Vinci's Demons, a Yiddish-speaking Jew was fleeing a band of German-speaking thugs. A witness to this event -- a blind man -- heard them yell out halt and, later, heard them shout whoa.

    I'll have to find my notes on this. A major point in the plot bore on the fact that they were speaking those identical "English" words, but in German and Yiddish.

  • LoveUniHateExams
    LoveUniHateExams

    Ooh, just thought of another few ...

    undertake (verb): he undertakes a task (difficult, arduous work).

    undertake (verb): the man in the car undertook (similar to overtook but moved into the slow lane - i.e. wrong lane) the truck/lorry, etc.

    undertaker (noun): person who buries dead people for a living.

    So, the word take can be used in various combinations with the prepositions over and under, and we have at least 6 meanings!

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    HaHaHa, LoveUni!

    Wonderful, but may I tease a bit?!?!?

    undertaker (noun): person who buries dead people for a living.

    There's no question as to your meaning, but I was amused by the modifier positioning.

    "A person who, for a living, buries dead people."

    "A person whose occupation is burying dead people."

    Please, don't mind me! This is my OCCUPATION!

    I appreciate your posts!

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    Deject, eject, inject, project, reject, from Latin jacere - to throw.

    Down, out, in, forward, backward ...

    Just heard an expert on TV say "quashed the rebellion."

    Sylvia

  • LoveUniHateExams
    LoveUniHateExams

    ^^^ excellent, Sylvia! ^^^

    And if I may interject with, erm, interject (I guess that would mean 'throw between' in Latin)

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Thanks, Sylvia!

    Good choices and appreciate the etymology!

    We are all together and altogether feeling fine!

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    Yes, LUHE.

    Thanks so much.

    Sylvia

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    Entomology/etymology/etiology

    Insects, word and disease origins

    Sylvia

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    Antimony/antinomy

    Element/conundrum

    Sylvia

    PS:. I can't post on my thread about birthday cake.

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