1100 WORDS You Need to Know Week 45 Day 2 ・raconteur…a skilled story-teller (early 19th cent. : French, from raconter 'relate～を話す, recount詳述する') ・sullen…ill-humored, grim厳しい (ME <in the senses 'solitary, averse to company', and 'unusual'> : from Anglo-Norman French sulein, from sol 'so</in>…

1100 WORDS You Need to Know Week 45 Day 1 ・wistful…longing, pensive, wishful (early 17th cent. : apparently from obsolete wistly 'intently夢中になって', influenced by wishful) ・raiment…dress, clothing (late ME : shortening of obsolete ar…

1100 WORDS You Need to Know Week 44 Day 5 Review 1. canard 2. carnage 3. defamatory 4. deluge 5. deprecate 6. devout 7. diminutive 8. dulcet 9. excoriate 10. frail 11. futility 12. impromptu 13. libel 14. malevolent 15. nullify 16. plainti…

1100 WORDS You Need to Know Week 44 Day4 ・diminutive…tiny, small (de- 'completely' + minuere 'make small') ・profuse…overflowing, abundant (pro- 'forward' + fundere 'to pour') ・dulcet…sweet or melodious to the ear (dulcis 'sweet') ・impr…

1100 WORDS You Need to Kow Week 44 Day 3 ・reputed…thought, supposed, believed (re- 'expressing intensive force' + putare 'think') ・frail…delicate, weak (fragilis, from frangere 'to break') ・potent…powerful, strong, intense (late ME : fr…

1100 WORDS You Need to Know Week 44 Day 2 ・libel…degrading by writing or publishing (ME <in the sense 'a document, a written statement'> : via Old French from Latin libellus, diminutive of liber 'book') ・defamatory…damaging character by false reports (dis- 'expressing removal' + fama </in>…

1100 WORDS You Need to Know Week 44 Day 1 ・nullify…abolish, cancel (nullus 'not any' + combining form of facere 'to make') ・deluge…to flood (late ME : from Old French, variant of diluve, from Latin diluvium, from diluere 'wash away') ・f…

1100 WORDS You Need to Know Weelk 43 Day 4 ・pariah…social outcast (early 17th cent. : from Tamil paraiyar, plural of paraiyan 'drummer', from parai 'a drum') ・aloof…distant, apart, reserved (a- 'on' + ME loof 'windward風に逆らって direct…

1100 WORDS You Need to Know Week 43 Day 3 ・largess…gift, gratuity, liberality (ME : from Old French, from Latin largus 'copious多量の') ・criterion…model, standard, test (early 17th cent. : from Greek kritērion 'means of judging', from kr…

1100 WORDS You Need to Know Week 43 Day 2 ・cynic…pessimist, skeptic (mid 16th cent. : from Latin cynicus, from Greek kunikos, probably oroiginally from Kunosarges, the name of a gymnasium where Antisthenes taught, but popularly taken to m…

1100 WORDS You Need to Know Week 43 Day 1 ・roster…a list of names (early 18th cent. <denoting a list of duties and leave for military personnel> : from Dutch rooster 'list', earlier 'gridiron', from roosten 'to roast', with reference to its parallel lines) ・stunted…checked in natural growth, held</denoting>…

1100 WORDS You Need to Know Week 42 Day 5 Review 1. artifice 2. artless 3. begrudge 4. blasé 5. callous 6. capricious 7. comely 8. delve 9. diversity 10. ennui 11. expedient 12. expurgate 13. frenetic 14. gratuity 15. manifest 16. negligib…

1100 WORDS You Need to Know Week 42 Day 4 ・manifest…evident, obvious (manus 'hand' + -festus 'perhaps <able to be> seized') ・delve…dig, do research (OE delfan 'dig' , of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch delven) ・capricious…fanciful, whimsical</able>…

1100 WORDS You Need to Know Week 42 Day 3 ・qualm…twinge of conscience (early 16th cent. <in the sense 'momentary sick feeling'> : perhaps related to OE cw<e>alm 'pain', of Germanic origin) ・expurgate…remove objectionable parts or passages (ex- 'out' + purgare 'cleanse') ・begrud</e></in>…

1100 WORDS You Need to Know Week 42 Day 2 ・ennui…boredom (mid 18th cent. : French, from Latin in odio<n->, from mihi in odio est 'it is hateful to me') ・comely…berautiful, handsome (ME : probably shortened from becomely 'fitting, becoming', </n->…

1100 WORDS You Need to Know Week42 Day1 ・quandary…doubt, dilemma (quando 'when') ・callous…hardened, unfeeling (callosus 'hard-skinned') ・expedient…advisable, fit (ex- 'out' + pes, ped- 'foot') ・negligent…trifle, inconsiderate (early 19…

1100 WORDS You Need to Know Week 41 Day 4 ・shibboleth…pet phrase, slogan (mjid 17th cent. : from Hebrew šibboleṯ 'ear of corn', used as a test of nationality by its difficult pronunciation) ・bogus…conterfeit, fake (unknown origin) ・subs…