Once when lecturing to a class he [Lord Kelvin] used the word “mathematician,” and then interrupting himself asked his class: “Do you know what a mathematician is?” Stepping to the blackboard he wrote upon it:— [an integral expression equal to the square root of pi] Then putting ...
omniscient Someone who is omniscient seems to know absolutely everything. unconscionable An action or deed is unconscionable if it is excessively shameful, unfair, or unjust and its effects are more severe than is reasonable or acceptable. prescient Someone who is prescient knows or is able to pre...
Prefixes are morphemes which begin words, attaching to a word’s main part, the “root” or “stem.” For instance, in the word return, re- is the prefix, and “turn” is the root or stem. One meaning of the prefix re- is “back.” For instance, when you reject a plan, you ...
separate." This is fromab"off, away from" (seeab-) +scindere"to cut, rend, tear asunder, split; split up, part, divide, separate" (from PIE*skind-, from root*skei-"to cut, split"). The Latin word translates Greekapolambanomenē, from a verb meaning "to cut off, intercept."...
“root”isthecoreoftheword.Youcanaddprefixesandsuffixestoarootandcreatemanydifferentwords.Youcanoftendeterminethemeaningofawordifyouknowtherootandthemeaningofanyaffixes(i.e.,prefixesandsuffixes).Sometimesitishardtotellthedifferencebetweenaprefixandarootword.Inresearchingthislist,Ifoundseveralofthesamewords...
You know you are beyond when a skyscraper—on another continent—has been imagined in your likeness. Or when you drop a surprise album and the cultural conversation immediately shifts. But more than towering over music, fashion, conversation and vernacular (see: “flawless,”“watta-melon,”“Be...
(j)/ split into /s & k/, 3askar 'troops' via /3 & s/-merger and turning /r/ into /l/, sajjal 'write' where /j/ turned into /k/, or qara' 'read' in which /q/ split into /s & k/ and /r/ became /l/. Science via Latin scientia, scire/scindere (v) 'know, cut,...
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A growing body of literature has documented an increased risk of gender-based violence (GBV) within the context of COVID-19 and service providers’ reduced capacity to address this vulnerability. Less examined are the system-level impacts of the pandemic