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👀 Observations
There were lots of bodily liquids and problems this week. And the obligatory antelope. Also some unanticipated connections. Example:
Enat: a relative on the mother's side
Enation: an outgrowth from the surface of an organ (also a band name that perhaps didn't intend to have that meaning)
Enjoy!
👀 Observations
There were lots of bodily liquids and problems this week. And the obligatory antelope. Also some unanticipated connections. Example:
Enat: a relative on the mother's side
Enation: an outgrowth from the surface of an organ (also a band name that perhaps didn't intend to have that meaning)
Enjoy!
⚛ Units of the Week
Dyad: a pair of units (a meta-unit!)
Dyne: a unit of force
Ecu: an old French coin
Ekpwele/ekuele: a former monetary unit of Equatorial Guinea
Electron: an elementary particle
Elhi: pertaining to school grades 1 through 12
Empire: a major political unit
Ephah: a Hebrew unit of dry measure
!!! Unexpected Words of the Week
Dyvour: one who is bankrupt
Eagre: a tidal flood
Eclosion: the emergence of an insect larva from an egg (Too much like explosion. I’ve also seen a mosquito hatching, and it’s amazing and revolting)
Ectopia: congenital displacement of parts or organs (Ouch?!)
Edh: an Old English letter (ð, makes a sound like th in other)
Effector: a bodily organ that responds to a nerve impulse
Effluvia: byproducts in the form of waste
Egest: to discharge from the body
Egesta: egested matter
Eldress: a female elder, a church officer (First used in 1640; the last eldress in the Shaker Society died in 1990)
Ekistics: a science dealing with human habitats
Eldritch: weird (I think this is a weird word to describe weird)
Elver: a young eel
Emesis: the act of vomiting
Emetic: a substance that induces vomiting
Emmet: an ant (The etymology of this from the OED was immense, and had something to do with something called parallel trisyllabic shortening!)
Empyema: a collection of pus in a body cavity
Enfeoff: to invest with a feudal estate (Don’t do it! Bad investment!)
English: to cause a billiard ball to spin around its vertical axis
Ennead: a group of nine
Enneagon: a nonagon
Entellus: a hanuman (East Indian monkey)
Enuresis: involuntary urination
Envenom: to put venom into
Epact: the difference between the lengths of the solar and lunar years (The solar year is 365–366 days and the lunar year is 354–355 days, thus the epact is usually eleven days)
Epicene: one having both male and female characteristics
♡ Favorite Words of the Week
Dwine: to pine or waste away
Eidolon: a phantom
Empyreal: pertaining to the sky
Ennui: a feeling of weariness and discontent
Ensky: to raise to the skies
Dyad: a pair of units (a meta-unit!)
Dyne: a unit of force
Ecu: an old French coin
Ekpwele/ekuele: a former monetary unit of Equatorial Guinea
Electron: an elementary particle
Elhi: pertaining to school grades 1 through 12
Empire: a major political unit
Ephah: a Hebrew unit of dry measure
!!! Unexpected Words of the Week
Dyvour: one who is bankrupt
Eagre: a tidal flood
Eclosion: the emergence of an insect larva from an egg (Too much like explosion. I’ve also seen a mosquito hatching, and it’s amazing and revolting)
Ectopia: congenital displacement of parts or organs (Ouch?!)
Edh: an Old English letter (ð, makes a sound like th in other)
Effector: a bodily organ that responds to a nerve impulse
Effluvia: byproducts in the form of waste
Egest: to discharge from the body
Egesta: egested matter
Eldress: a female elder, a church officer (First used in 1640; the last eldress in the Shaker Society died in 1990)
Ekistics: a science dealing with human habitats
Eldritch: weird (I think this is a weird word to describe weird)
Elver: a young eel
Emesis: the act of vomiting
Emetic: a substance that induces vomiting
Emmet: an ant (The etymology of this from the OED was immense, and had something to do with something called parallel trisyllabic shortening!)
Empyema: a collection of pus in a body cavity
Enfeoff: to invest with a feudal estate (Don’t do it! Bad investment!)
English: to cause a billiard ball to spin around its vertical axis
Ennead: a group of nine
Enneagon: a nonagon
Entellus: a hanuman (East Indian monkey)
Enuresis: involuntary urination
Envenom: to put venom into
Epact: the difference between the lengths of the solar and lunar years (The solar year is 365–366 days and the lunar year is 354–355 days, thus the epact is usually eleven days)
Epicene: one having both male and female characteristics
♡ Favorite Words of the Week
Dwine: to pine or waste away
Eidolon: a phantom
Empyreal: pertaining to the sky
Ennui: a feeling of weariness and discontent
Ensky: to raise to the skies
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