Etymology
Either from the Old French desfacier or the Anglo-French desfacer, both meaning to disfigure.
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🗣 Diction (speaking) 🗣
Benefits➕ :
🗣 Choose the best words and phrases to improve your speaking ;
💬 Avoid embarrassing errors in conversations .
❗️ INSTRUCTIONS: Determine if the sentences contain errors by choosing VALID or ERROR.
Benefits
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1️⃣ Changing careers is not something to do without [serious] thought.
Anonymous Quiz
86%
VALID ✅
14%
ERROR ❌
2️⃣ The professor advised students to check their work to avoid [careless] mistakes.
Anonymous Quiz
68%
VALID ✅
32%
ERROR ❌
3️⃣ I'm sympathetic to your cause; you're barking [around] the wrong tree.
Anonymous Quiz
68%
VALID ✅
32%
ERROR ❌
5️⃣Historians believe William Shakespeare's parents probably didn't read or [write].
Anonymous Quiz
78%
VALID ✅
22%
ERROR ❌
Etymology
From the Latin acquiescere, meaning "to find rest in". It shares the Latin root quies, meaning "calm", with the Modern English word quiet.
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"I was [happy] to be selected as first violin."
(e.g., cheerful etc.)
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"The nurse did everything possible to [improve] his patient."
(e.g., fix etc.)
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"The accident caused a(n) [pause] in traffic."
(e.g., stop etc.)
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Etymology
From the Latin emaciare, meaning "to make thin", which comes from macer, meaning "thin". Modern English's meager shares macer as a root.
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