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📚 Word of the Day: F E T T L E . 🤓 Etymology: late Middle English (as a verb in the general sense ‘get ready, prepare’, specifically ‘prepare oneself for battle, gird up’): from dialect fettle ‘strip of material, girdle’, from Old English fetel, of Germanic origin; related to German Fessel ‘chain, band’. . 📒 Example 1: With a strict diet regime, Jennifer got her fit body back and in great fettle. . 📘 Example 2: For decades of neglect, the building still remains in fine fettle. . 📗 Example 3: After five months of apprenticeship,Tim gets used to the familiar sounds of bikes being prepped and fettled . 🌈 Reference: OALD, Merriam-Webster . 👉 Follow us: instagram.com/word.lover44 . #word #wordlover #learning #education #writing #vocabulary #language #verbal #dailywords #awordaday #prompt #fettle #condition #good #repair #fix https://www.instagram.com/p/CNZOBJgM5QK/?igshid=1l1jr6cj0nprm

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📚 Word of the Day: M E S H U G A

🤓 Etymology: late 19th century: from Yiddish meshuge, from Hebrew.

📒 Example 1: Either a miracle is taking place, or we're all meshuga.

📘 Example 2: Jack sounded meshuga when he wanted to climb Mount Everest alone.

🌈 Reference: Oxford Languages

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📚 Word of the Day: H U M D R U M .

🤓 Etymology: mid 16th cent.: probably a reduplication of hum.

📒 Example 1: His arrival brought some variety into the humdrum life at the gallery.

📘 Example 2: How I wish it was over and I could get back to my humdrum routine.

📗 Example 3: There is a lot of dull, humdrum work in local politics. . 🌈 Reference: OALD .

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“komorebi (木漏れ日)”

— (noun) it’s an untranslatable Japanese word for sunlight filtering through the leaves of trees

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Isn't KOMOREBI a beautiful word?

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A classic meme from Episode 18: Translating the Untranslatable. 

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Interesting Podcast! :D

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📚 Word of the Day: S H E N A N I G A N

🤓 Etymology: The history of shenanigan is as tricky and mischievous as its meaning. Etymologists have some theories about its origins, but no one has been able to prove them. All we can say for certain is that the earliest known use of the word in print appeared in the April 25, 1855, issue of San Francisco's Town Talk. Although the "underhanded trick" sense of the word is oldest, the most common senses in use now are "tricky or questionable practices" (as in "political shenanigans") and "high-spirited behavior" (as in "youthful shenanigans").

📒 Example 1: More business shenanigans were exposed in the newspapers today.

📘 Example 2: Widespread financial shenanigans had ruined the fortunes of many.

📗 Example 3: I don’t know how he puts up with their shenanigans.

🌈 Reference: Merriam-Webster, Cambridge Dictionary

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😎What do you usually do in your free time? I love to walk around the city taking pictures 📸 enjoying the pace of life 🌈 . Yeah a peripatetic approach is well worth a try🤓

🚶‍♂️Walk! 🚶🏻‍♂️Walk! 🚶‍♂️Walk! 🚶🏻‍♂️Walk! 🚶‍♂️Walk! Let’s get some dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt

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🤓 Do you know that this word comes from the French phrase ‘de born aire’ (“of good stock, noble) ? ✨📚

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🤗 hello to all lovers of words, are you ready for ✨ a fecund Monday? 🤩✨

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🤓📚Today we are going to learn another loan word from French: SANGFROID (sang-froid, lterally ‘cold blood’) 😌

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hi word lovers, check out my brand-new post with a touch of vintage-inspired design :-) have you ever met a curmudgeon in your life ? In my case, it is countless 😝

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📚Did you know that “puissant” , “power” and “potent” share the same Latin root “posse” (meaning ‘to be able’)? 🤓

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