disguised (verb)
101loaf — English has two words loaf. By far the older is ‘portion of bread’ [OE], which goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *khlaibaz. This also produced German laib and Danish lev ‘loaf’, and was borrowed, originally into Gothic, from an Old Slavic chleb …
102long — [OE] Long goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *langgaz, which also produced German, Dutch, and Danish lang and Swedish lång. It is presumably related to Latin longus ‘long’ (source of French long, Italian lungo, and Romanian lung) but quite how… …
103post — Including the prefix post , English has four different words post. The oldest, ‘long upright piece of wood, metal, etc’ [OE], was borrowed from Latin postis. From it was derived the verb post ‘fix to a post’, which in turn produced poster [19],… …
104ration — [18] Ration, like reason, comes from Latin ratiō, a derivative of the verb rērī ‘think, calculate’. This meant, among other things, ‘calculation, computation’, in which sense it has yielded English ratio [17]. In the Middle Ages it was used for… …
105regent — [14] Regent is one of a large family of English words that go back to Latin regere ‘rule’, a descendant of the Indo European base reg ‘move in a straight line’, hence ‘direct, guide, rule’. Others include correct, direct, dirge, erect, rector,… …
106cen´sor|a|ble — cen|sor «SEHN suhr», noun, verb. –n. 1. a person who examines books, newspapers and news reports, plays, motion pictures, and letters, and, if necessary, changes or prohibits them to make them acceptable to the government or the organization that …
107cen|sor — «SEHN suhr», noun, verb. –n. 1. a person who examines books, newspapers and news reports, plays, motion pictures, and letters, and, if necessary, changes or prohibits them to make them acceptable to the government or the organization that employs …
108sub|min´i|a|tur|i|za´tion — sub|min|i|a|tur|ize «suhb MIHN ee uh chuh ryz, MIHN uh chuh », transitive verb, ized, iz|ing. to reduce to subminiature size; microminiaturize: »The proliferation of transistorized and “subminiaturized” tape recording devices many of them easily… …
109sub|min|i|a|tur|ize — «suhb MIHN ee uh chuh ryz, MIHN uh chuh », transitive verb, ized, iz|ing. to reduce to subminiature size; microminiaturize: »The proliferation of transistorized and “subminiaturized” tape recording devices many of them easily concealed or… …
110trav|es|ty — «TRAV uh stee», noun, plural ties, verb, tied, ty|ing. –n. 1. any treatment or imitation that makes a serious thing seem ridiculous: »The trial was a travesty of justice, since the judge and jury were prejudiced. 2. a) an imitation of a serious… …
