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telluric
adjective
of or proceeding from the earth or soil.
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Telluric 鈥渙f or relating to the earth鈥� derives from the Latin noun 迟别濒濒奴蝉 (stem 迟别濒濒奴谤-) 鈥渆arth.鈥� Much as Latin had two words for 鈥渟tar鈥濃��sidus and stella, as featured in the etymology for recent 51吃瓜 of the Day circumstellar鈥擫atin had two words as well for 鈥渆arth鈥�: 迟别濒濒奴蝉 and terra. Just as stella became the more productive of the two and is the source of modern Romance words for 鈥渟tar,鈥� so was terra preferred over 迟别濒濒奴蝉. While 迟别濒濒奴蝉 is the root of a few technical terms in English, such as the element tellurium, terra can be found today in English terms such as terrain, territory, and extraterrestrial as well as in French terre and Spanish tierra. Telluric was first recorded in English in the 1830s.
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There came to me the cracked, halting voices of the water drawers as they returned from the river, laden, and I set down my books and listened to the broken rhythm of their gait, the thud of their walking sticks, the telluric drone of shifting plates of granite.
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aver
verb (used with object)
to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
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Aver 鈥渢o assert with confidence鈥� derives via Middle English and Middle French from Medieval Latin 补诲惫脓谤腻谤别, roughly 鈥渢o make true,鈥� from Latin 惫脓谤耻蝉 鈥渢rue.鈥� The ultimate source of 惫脓谤耻蝉 is a Proto-Indo-European root of the same meaning that has an unexpected cognate in English: warlock. The war- part of warlock means 鈥渇aith鈥� as well as 鈥渁greement, covenant鈥� in Old English, and the original meaning of warlock (Old English 飞牵谤濒辞驳补) was 鈥渙athbreaker.鈥� Latin v frequently corresponds to English w, which is evident in other pairs of cognates from the two languages, such as Latin ventus and English wind, Latin via and English way, and Latin verbum and English word. Aver was first recorded in English in the late 14th century. Learn some synonyms for aver by checking out .
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Ms. Sidibe鈥檚 aunt is Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a founder of Ms. Magazine; a famous portrait from 1971, of Ms. Pitman Hughes and Gloria Steinem raising their fists in a Black Power salute, hung in her sitting room, where Ms. Sidibe passed it every day on her way to school, and Ms. Steinem was a regular guest. While Ms. Sidibe averred that she is 鈥渁 link on a chain of powerful women,鈥� her own steely self-confidence, she said, wasn鈥檛 nurtured by her activist relatives so much as a survival skill she taught herself in the bruising theater of elementary school.
Ours is called the Age of Science for a reason, and that reason is reason itself, which in recent decades has come under fire by cognitive psychologists and behavioral economists who assert that humans are irrational by nature and by postmodernists who aver that reason is a hegemonic weapon of patriarchal oppression. Balderdash! Call it 鈥渇actiness,鈥� the quality of seeming to be factual when it is not.
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Yakka 鈥渨ork鈥� is a term in Australian slang that used to be spelled variously as yacker or yakker, among other options. Because Australian English is a variety of English that is non-rhotic, dropping the r sound after a vowel, the original spelling of yakka may have changed to reflect this r-dropping tendency. While the ultimate source of yakka is obscure, the most popular hypothesis is a derivation from yaga 鈥渢o work,鈥� a word from the Yagara language. Yagara, also known as Turrbal, is a language native to Queensland, the northeasternmost state of Australia, and belongs to the Pama鈥揘yungan language family, as do three-quarters of all aboriginal languages of Australia. Yakka was first recorded in English in the late 1880s.
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Beyond the stereotyped 鈥淕鈥檇ay鈥� (hello) of souvenir T-shirts and 鈥淐rocodile Dundee鈥� movies, are many words rich in tradition that define the Australian identity and give continuity to the variety of voices and experiences that shaped the country鈥檚 history. Assuming you pass the tests and move to Australia, you鈥檒l probably find yourself flat out like a lizard drinking, that鈥檚 extremely busy, from the hard yakka or labour of your new job.
In Adelaide there may be periods when the ball darts around and the bowlers move to attacking lengths to induce batters into coming forward, and other times when seamers will have to plug away and do some hard yakka, which England鈥檚 are capable of doing. The path to victory is to bang away with accurate seam bowlers.
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