WORDS FOR WEEK 9
| immanent "indwelling" "abiding in"< Latin in- "in" + manere "remain", "dwell" + ent "-ing" |
| salient "striking", "conspicuous" < Latin salire "leap" + ent "-ing" Other English words from this Latin verb include resilient, salacious ["appealing to or stimulating lust" < salax "fond of / tending to leap"], result] |
| factotum "a do-all", "an assistant wide a broad job-description" < Latin fac "do" + totum "all" |
| invidious "causing ill-will" < Latin in- "in", "against" + videre "see" |
| intransigent "stubornly uncompromising" < Latin in- "not" + trans- "across" + -ig- < agere "do", "drive", "lead" + ent "-ing" |
Chauvinism and other people words:
Spoonerism: a transposition of sounds of two or more words, named after William Spooner, an English clergyman. As in "Let me sew you to your sheet" [for "show you to your seat"].
Simony: trade in spititual offices, named after Simon Magus who tried to buy spiritual powers from St. Peter.
Bowdlerize: to expurgate, named after Thomas Bowdler who in 1818 published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare.
Tackle < Middle Dutch taken "to seize" or "grasp"
String < Old English streng
Review for test II