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Archive for Thursday 11 September 2008
Words of the Day
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School just started, and I’ve been extremely busy–but I promise more food related posts soon! For now, here are some words whose meanings I’ve re/learned whilst reading for school:
- tacit – understood or implied without being stated
- efface – erase (a mark) from a surface | make oneself appear insignificant or inconspicuous
- assuage – make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense | satisfy
- confer – grant or bestow
- memento mori – “remember that you are mortal”
- vertiginous – causing vertigo, esp. by being extremely high or steep
- goad – a thing that stimulates someone into action | to provoke or annoy (someone) so as to stimulate some action or reaction
The definitions are from the Oxford English Dictionary, except for where linked.