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81manipulation — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ careful, clever, skilful/skillful ▪ cynical, deliberate ▪ direct ▪ political …
82color — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Rainbow hue Nouns 1. color, hue, tint, tinge, shade, dye, complexion, tincture, cast, coloration, glow, flush; tone, key; color organ; Technicolor. 2. pure, primary, positive, or complementary color;… …
83court — [12] Latin cohors designated an ‘enclosed yard’ (it was formed from the prefix com ‘with’ and an element hort which also appears in English horticulture). By extension it came to stand for those assembled in such a yard – a crowd of attendants or …
84current — [13] Current literally means ‘running’. It comes from Old French corant, the present participle of courre ‘run’, which in turn was descended from Latin currere ‘run’. This has been traced back to a prehistoric root denoting ‘swift movement’,… …
85fact — [16] A fact is literally ‘something that is done’. It comes from Latin factum ‘deed’, a noun based on the past participle of facere ‘do’. This verb, a distant relative of English do, has contributed richly to English vocabulary, from obvious… …
86loaf — 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 …
87long — [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… …
88post — 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],… …
89ration — [18] Ration, like reason, comes from Latin ratiō, a derivative of the verb rērī ‘think, rattle 414 calculate’. This meant, among other things, ‘calculation, computation’, in which sense it has yielded English ratio [17]. In the Middle Ages it was …
90regent — [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,… …
