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Of Words 221 www.ZTCprep.com ffirs.qxd 7/21/05 12:07 PM Page i Another Word A Day www.ZTCprep.com ffirs.qxd 7/21/05 12:07 PM Page ii Also by Anu Garg A Word A Day: A Romp through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English www.ZTCprep.com ffirs.qxd 7/21/05 12:07 PM Page iii Another Word A Day An All-New Romp through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English Anu Garg John Wiley & Sons, Inc. www.ZTCprep.com ffirs.qxd 7/21/05 12:07 PM Page iv Copyright © 2005 by Anu Garg. All rights reserved Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey Published simultaneously in Canada Composition by Navta Associates, Inc. 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Wiley also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. For more information about Wiley products, visit our web site at www.wiley.com. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Garg, Anu. Another word a day : an all-new romp through some of the most unusual and intriguing words in English / Anu Garg. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 13 978-0-471-71845-1 (pbk.) ISBN 10 0-471-71845-9 (pbk.) ISBN 13 978-0-471-77878-3 (cloth) ISBN 10 0-471-77878-8 (cloth) 1. Vocabulary. 2. English language—Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. I. Title. PE1449.G3345 2006 428.1—dc22 2005004284 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 www.ZTCprep.com ffirs.qxd 7/21/05 12:07 PM Page v All words are pegs to hang ideas on. —HENRY WARD B EECHER www.ZTCprep.com ffirs.qxd 7/21/05 12:07 PM Page vi www.ZTCprep.com ftoc.qxd 7/21/05 12:03 PM Page vii Contents Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1 Words to Describe People I 5 opsimath ● agelast ● losel ● nebbish ● cruciverbalist 2 Earls Who Became Words (or Places That Became Words) 9 orrery ● cadogan ● Oxfordian ● derby ● Yarborough 3 Words Having Origins in Chess 14 zugzwang ● checkmate ● gambit ● stalemate ● endgame 4 Words That Appear to Be Misspellings of Everyday Words I 18 passible ● monestrous ● cloture ● nutriment ● assoil 5 Archaic Words 21 clepe ● sennight ● anon ● gainsay ● hearken 6 Toponyms 24 Chautauqua ● Pax Romana ● Gibraltar ● seltzer ● Kilkenny cats vii www.ZTCprep.com ftoc.qxd 7/21/05 12:03 PM Page viii viii CONTENTS 7 Words about Books and Writing 28 roman à clef ● orihon ● amphigory ● conspectus ● magnum opus 8 Words Borrowed from Yiddish 31 chutzpah ● mensch ● zaftig ● kvetch ● schlep 9 Te r ms from the World of Law 36 estoppel ● laches ● solatium ● sui juris ● mittimus 10 Words That Appear to Be Misspellings of Everyday Words II 40 eagre ● imprest ● endue ● biennial ● quacksalver 11 Words Borrowed from Arabic 44 alembic ● nadir ● jihad ● houri ● talisman 12 Words Formed Erroneously 48 niddering ● obsidian ● helpmeet ● zenith ● derring-do 13 What’s in a Name? 52 randy ● tony ● ted ● bobby ● brad 14 Words from Poetry 56 cataract ● dreary ● nosegay ● collyrium ● tarry 15 Fishy Words 61 minnow ● gudgeon ● remora ● inconnu ● tope 16 Discover the Theme I 66 ubiety ● irade ● ambit ● estival ● lanate 17 Te r ms Employing Various Nationalities 71 French leave ● Chinese wall ● Roman holiday ● Irish bull ● Dutch auction 18 Words with Double Connections 75 diplopia ● double entendre ● ambsace ● satchel ● doppelgänger www.ZTCprep.com ftoc.qxd 7/21/05 12:03 PM Page ix CONTENTS ix 19 Words Related to the Calendar 79 ides ● bissextile ● Greek calends ● menology ● fin de siècle 20 False Friends 83 sacrilegious ● scission ● oust ● impregnable ● mellifluous 21 Red-Herring Words 87 undulate ● fartlek ● conversant ● assize ● valorize 22 Words Related to the Human Body 90 nares ● oxter ● pollex ● nevus ● glossal 23 Words Related to Buying and Selling 93 emptor ● nummary ● duopoly ● monopsony ● chandler 24 Miscellaneous Words 98 astrobleme ● pudency ● aporia ● remontant ● loricate 25 Words That Have Changed Meaning with Time 101 demagogue ● decimate ● feisty ● egregious ● officious 26 Words about Words 107 hapax legomenon ● metaphor ● vulgat ● hyperbole ● metaplasm 27 Anglo-Saxon Words 111 meed ● fen ● lief ● fain ● wight 28 Words Borrowed from Other Languages 115 cumshaw ● smorgasbord ● baksheesh ● taboo ● honcho 29 Words from Medicine 118 sequela ● nosology ● idiopathy ● placebo ● nyctalopia 30 Numeric Terms 123 sixty-four-dollar question ● eighty-six ● twenty-twenty ● deep-six ● catch-22 www.ZTCprep.com ftoc.qxd 7/21/05 12:03 PM Page x x CONTENTS 31 Kangaroo Words 132 indolent ● rapscallion ● amicable ● frangible ● scion 32 What Does That Company Name Mean? 135 cingular ● lucent ● prudential ● vanguard ● suppurate 33 Words with Interesting Etymologies 139 erudite ● sobriquet ● indite ● pentimento ● cockamamie 34 Words to Describe People II 143 scrofulous ● ugsome ● gormless ● scalawag ● sciolist 35 Words about Collecting and the Study of Things 147 scripophily ● deltiology ● exonumia ● notaphily ● vexillology 36 Words from the World of Law II 150 voir dire ● en banc ● parol ● depone ● distrain 37 Words Derived from Other Languages 153 sangfroid ● dragoman ● hinterland ● apparat ● Blighty 38 Words about Words II 156 exonym ● mononym ● cryptonym ● teknonym ● matronym 39 Words Borrowed from African Languages 161 zombie ● veld ● juju ● spoor ● mumbo jumbo 40 Metallic Words Used as Metaphors 165 goldbrick ● silver bullet ● brassy ● leaden ● tin ear 41 Words Related to Movies 170 bogart ● cinematheque ● jeune premier ● McGuffin ● cineaste 42 Discover the Theme II 174 extemporize ● impresario ● macroscopic ● postdiluvian ● plausive www.ZTCprep.com ftoc.qxd 7/21/05 12:03 PM Page xi CONTENTS xi 43 Miscellaneous Words II 178 telic ● saltant ● conurbation ● trade-last ● tardigrade 44 Words That Aren’t What They Appear to Be 182 beestings ● pythoness ● lambent ● redoubt ● archimage 45 Words of Horse-Related Origins 185 desultory ● equitant ● tattersall ● spavined ● hors de combat 46 Words of Horse-Related Origins II 189 cheval-de-frise ● Hobson’s choice ● harridan ● cheval de bataille ● cavalier 47 Words with Origins in War 192 nom de guerre ● antebellum ● polemic ● bellicose ● casus belli 48 Words from Latin 196 stat ● ceteris paribus ● qua ● terra firma ● via media 49 Words to Describe Your Opponents 200 facinorous ● ventripotent ● dasypygal ● saponaceous ● yegg 50 Discover the Theme III 204 orotund ● draggle ● trunnel ● pinnate ● lability 51 Words Borrowed from Native American Languages 207 sachem ● wampum ● high-muck-a-muck ● manitou ● powwow 52 Loanwords from Spanish 211 amigo ● loco ● duende ● disembogue ● armada Answers 215 Web Resources: More Fun with Words 219 Index of Words 221 www.ZTCprep.com ftoc.qxd 7/21/05 12:03 PM Page xii www.ZTCprep.com flast.qxd 7/21/05 12:05 PM Page xiii Acknowledgments Thanks to all the linguaphiles who are a part of Wordsmith.org. Thanks to my literary agents, Marly Rusoff and Judy Hansen. Thanks to Hana Lane, my editor at John Wiley & Sons. Thanks to Todd Derr and Eric Shackle at Wordsmith. Thanks to Carolanne Reynolds, the grammar goddess. Thanks to my wife, Stuti, and our daughter, Ananya. Thanks to my parents. Thanks to my guru. xiii www.ZTCprep.com flast.qxd 7/21/05 12:05 PM Page xiv www.ZTCprep.com cintro.qxd 7/21/05 12:08 PM Page 1 Introduction reader wrote,“I know you’ve been featuring words every day at AWordsmith.org for more than a decade. Do you think you’ll ever run out of them?” A living language, like English, is constantly on the move. Trying to describe it is like trying to take a snapshot of a flowing river. As a language passes through time and space, it is altered in innumerable ways. And it is continually replenished, refreshed, and rejuvenated. Time A river flowing through the centuries picks up some new pebbles and discards some old. It reshapes the existing ones, polishing them to show new hues, accentuate new angles. It brings some to the surface and buries others below layers (sometimes those pebbles can pop up again!). If we sat in a time machine and traveled back a few centuries, we would have to be careful using our current word- stock.
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