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andragogy
noun
the methods or techniques used to teach adults: Many educators believe that the principles of andragogy, as advanced by Malcolm Knowles, have great relevance to adult education; others are not so certain.
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English andragogy is modeled upon pedagogy, which ultimately comes from Greek 辫补颈诲补驳艒驳铆补 鈥渢he function of a 辫补颈诲补驳艒驳贸蝉,鈥� by extension 鈥渆ducation.鈥� A 辫补颈诲补驳艒驳贸蝉, literally 鈥渃hild guide,鈥� was a slave who walked a child to and from school. 笔补颈诲补驳艒驳贸蝉 is a compound formed from paid-, inflectional stem of 辫补卯蝉 鈥漜hild,鈥� and 补驳艒驳贸蝉 鈥済uide,鈥� a derivative of the verb 谩驳别颈苍 鈥渢o lead, take away, carry.鈥� The combining form andr- of andragogy is one of the stems of the Greek noun 补苍岣梤 (aner-, andr-) 鈥渕an鈥� (as opposed to a woman or child). Greek 补苍岣梤 comes from Proto-Indo-European ner-, 菨苍别谤-, source of Sanskrit 苍谩谤 鈥渕an, human,鈥� and the Latin proper name 狈别谤艒. According to Roman grammarians, nero among the Sabines, a rural people that lived northeast of Rome, meant fortis ac strenuus 鈥渂rave and energetic.鈥� In Celtic (Welsh) Proto-Indo-European ner- becomes ner 鈥渉别谤辞.鈥� Andragogy entered English in the 20th century.
how is andragogy used?
… in the technology of andragogy there is decreasing emphasis on the transmittal techniques of traditional teaching and increasing emphasis on experimental techniques which tap the experience of the learners and involve them in analyzing their experience.
We focus on adults and so prefer to use the term 鈥�andragogy.鈥� We’ve found that adults have their own specific challenges in the learning journey, and we’ve specifically set up to address them.
dreamboat
noun
Slang. a highly attractive or desirable person.
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If you associate dreamboat, a.k.a. heartthrob, with the movies that Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney made in the late 鈥�30s and early 鈥�40s, you are correct on the date of origin and datedness of the word. Guy Lombardo, the Canadian-American bandleader (1902-1977), popularized dreamboat in his song When My Dream Boat Comes Home (1936).
how is dreamboat used?
Hunter was a studio player at Warner Brothers: a blond, blue-eyed dreamboat, whom the studio was selling鈥攓uite successfully鈥攁s the quintessential boy next door.
A tall dreamboat of a pilot in a grey uniform was chatting with a group of four people.
embosk
verb
to hide or conceal (something, oneself, etc.) with or as if with foliage, greenery, or the like: to embosk oneself within a grape arbor.
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The verb embosk 鈥渢o hide in bushes鈥� doesn鈥檛 look quite as bogus as embiggen, but it鈥檚 not far off. The prefix em-, a form of en- used before labial consonants (p, b, m) as in embalm, embankment, and embark, is familiar enough. Bosk is the funny word. It first appears as a singular noun boske (and plural boskes) in the late 13th century, meaning bush, bushes, and is last recorded about 1400 in Cleanness (or Purity), a poem by an unknown author known as the Gawain Poet. Bosk survives in British dialect but reentered standard English in the 19th century through the poetry of Sir Walter Scott and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. As rare as bosk is, its derivative embosk is even rarer. Embosk entered English in the late 20th century.
how is embosk used?
… they seek the dark, the bushy, the tangled forest; they would embosk.