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Friday, 17 April 2009

An assortment of words to add to your vocab!

etiolate \EE-tee-uh-layt\, transitive verb:
1. (Botany) To bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight.
2. To make pale or sickly.
3. To make weak by stunting the growth or development of.
4. (Botany) To become bleached or whitened, as when grown without sunlight.
Etiolate comes from French étioler, perhaps for s'éteuler, "to become like straw," from Old French esteule, "stubble or straw," from Latin stipula, "a stalk, straw."

outré \oo-TRAY\, adjective:
Unconventional; eccentric; bizarre. (this is me from now on... I'm not eccentric I'm outre!)
Outré comes from French, from the past participle of outer, "to exaggerate, to go beyond," from Latin ultra, "beyond."

labile \LAY-byl\, adjective:
1. Open to change; apt or likely to change; adaptable. (not)
2. Constantly or readily undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown; unstable. (me again???)
Labile derives from Late Latin labilis, from Latin labi, "to slip."

susurrus \su-SUHR-uhs\, noun:
A whispering or rustling sound; a murmur.
Susurrus comes from the Latin susurrus, "a murmuring, a whispering, a humming."

(I wonder who finds all these words!!!- some sad individual who has nothing better to do!!! - ME!) ha ha ha ha

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