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Callow
adjective | KAL-oh
Callow is a synonym of immature used to describe someone,
especially a young person, who does not have much experience and does not know
how to behave like an adult. Like the word immature, callow is often used
disapprovingly.
This meaning of callow links
the word directly to its origin, the Old English word calu, meaning “bald,” and
to today’s more common use in describing someone possessed of youthful naiveté.
Calu eventually fledged
into callow with the same “bald, hairless” meaning, but was applied to bald
land too—that is, land denuded of vegetation or not producing it in the first
place.
By the 16th century, callow had expanded beyond the literal
sense of “lacking hair or flora” to its avian use of “lacking feathers” as well
as to today’s familiar application to people. Callow now is most often used to
suggest the inexperience or immaturity of young people brimming with confidence
but still, figuratively, unfledged.
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lethargic
In Greek mythology, Lethe was the name of a river in the underworld that was also called "the River of Unmindfulness" or "the River of Forgetfulness." Legend held that when someone died, they were given a drink of water from the river Lethe to forget all about their past life. Eventually this act of forgetting came to be associated with feelings of sluggishness, inactivity, or indifference. The name of the river and the word lethargic, as well as the related noun lethargy, all come from lēthē, Greek for "forgetfulness."
In Greek mythology, Lethe was the name of a river in the underworld that was also called "the River of Unmindfulness" or "the River of Forgetfulness." Legend held that when someone died, they were given a drink of water from the river Lethe to forget all about their past life. Eventually this act of forgetting came to be associated with feelings of sluggishness, inactivity, or indifference. The name of the river and the word lethargic, as well as the related noun lethargy, all come from lēthē, Greek for "forgetfulness."
Take a break.....
Respite traces from the Latin term respectus (also the source of English's respect, which comes from respicere, a verb with both concrete and abstract meanings: "to turn around to look at" or "to regard." Within a few decades of its earliest known use, English speakers had granted respite the sense we use most often today—"a welcome break."
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There are something like 2 trillion galaxies.....
There are something like 2 trillion galaxies or in other words, two trillion 2000 billion galaxies and each Galaxy is around the size of Milky Way.
Good words to have
Clandestine comes to English by way of Middle French, from the Latin word clandestinus, which is itself from the Latin adverb clam, meaning "secretly." Note that this clam is not the ancestor of the English word clam, despite how tightly sealed and thus secretive the bivalves may seem.
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On the Wing by Christina Rossetti
Once in a dream (for once I dreamed of you)
We stood together
in an open field;
Above our heads
two swift-winged pigeons wheeled,
Sporting at east and courting full in view:—
When loftier still a broadening darkness flew,
Down-swooping, and
a ravenous hawk revealed;
Too weak to fight,
too fond to fly, they yield;
So farewell life and love and pleasures new.
Then as their plumes fell fluttering to the ground,
Their snow-white
plumage flecked with crimson drops,
I wept, and
thought I turned towards you to weep:
But you were gone;
while rustling hedgerow tops
Bent in a wind which bore to me a sound
Of far-off
piteous bleat of lambs and sheep.
Bernstein House, 1978, Washington - Architecte Arthur Cotton Moore
Supersede
Supersede ultimately comes from the Latin verb supersedēre, meaning "to sit on top of" (sedēre means "to sit"), "to be superior to," or "to refrain from," but it came to English through Scots Middle English, where it was rendered superceden and used synonymously with defer.
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Good words to have
Amiable (AY-mee-uh-buhl) Pleasant; friendly. From Latin amicus (friend), which also gave us amity, amicus curiae, amigo, inimical, and enemy.
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The well taught philosophic mind
The
well taught philosophic mind
To
all compassion gives;
Casts round the world an equal eye,
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And feels for all that lives.
-Anna Laetitia
Barbauld, poet, essayist, and editor (June 20, 1743-1825)
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