Words: Origins (Quiz)
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These are your words of the week
Ramadan
totality
patrizate
pièce de résistance
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Use your words.

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘surfeit.’
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'Lead' and 'read' rhyme.

Unless you're saying 'lead' and 'read.'

But also 'lead' and 'read' rhyme.

Bonus points if you can also work this word into a conversation today.

Good God!

12 Bird Names that Sound Like Compliments
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The #WordOfTheDay is ‘discomfit.’
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Some consider 'xennials' to be those born between 1977 and 1983.

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‘Cockroach’ comes from the Spanish ‘cucaracha.’

The ‘cuca-’ of ‘cucaracha’ is the Spanish word for “butterfly caterpillar.”

English speakers heard ‘cock’ (“rooster”) and ‘roach,’ which did not yet refer to insects as it commonly does today, but to a kind of fish.

'Papa Fish'…

At the 1936 Olympics, Haiti and Liechtenstein discovered they essentially had the same flag. To avoid future confusion, Haiti added its national crest and Liechtenstein added a yellow crown.

Thank you for this Ben Stiller

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘vicarious.’
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What word is your spelling nemesis?

This is a safe space.

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘aegis.’
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Spoiler Alert: they were right.

‘Eclipse’ is borrowed from Greek ‘ékleipsis’ which means “abandonment, failure, cessation, obscuring of a celestial body by another.”

So please protect your eyes when working through your abandonment issues today.

eclipses *be* like

syzygy | noun | the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies (such as the sun, moon, and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse) in a gravitational system

(Turn around)
Every now and then I get a little bit lonely
And you're never coming 'round...