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bonanza
noun
a source of great and sudden wealth or luck; a spectacular windfall: The play proved to be a bonanza for its lucky backers.
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Bonanza is a Mexican Spanish noun that entered American English in the early 1840s. In Spanish bonanza means 鈥渇air, calm weather (for sailing); prosperity.鈥� Bonanza is a nasalized variant of Vulgar and Medieval Latin bonacia, bonatzia 鈥渃alm sea,鈥� which is a blend of the Latin adjective bon(us) 鈥済ood鈥� and Medieval Latin (mal)acia 鈥渃alm sea,鈥� from Greek 尘补濒补办铆补 鈥渟辞蹿迟苍别蝉蝉.鈥� Bonanza, with a transferred sense 鈥渞ich vein of ore,鈥� was first applied to the gold mines of Placer County, California (1844), and the silver mines of the Comstock Lode, Nevada (1859).
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After Stevie Wonder appeared in a segment, one of his greatest-hits albums jumped to the top of the U.K. iTunes charts, turning 鈥淐arpool Karaoke鈥� into a promotional bonanza.
Over the next three weeks they picked up four new clients, a bonanza by Harvey’s standards.
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obfuscate
verb (used with object)
to make obscure or unclear: to obfuscate a problem with extraneous information.
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The verb obfuscate comes from Late Latin (especially Christian Latin) 辞蹿蹿耻蝉肠腻迟(耻蝉), also 辞产蹿耻蝉肠腻迟(耻蝉), the past participle of 辞蹿蹿耻蝉肠腻谤别 (辞产蹿耻蝉肠腻谤别), literally 鈥渢o darken, obscure.鈥� 翱蹿蹿耻蝉肠腻谤别 is a compound of the preposition and prefix ob, of– 鈥渢oward, against,鈥� also used as an intensive prefix, as here, and the verb 蹿耻蝉肠腻谤别 鈥渢o make dark, become dark.鈥� The Latin root word is the adjective fuscus 鈥渄ark, somber, dim, drab.鈥� Fuscus is possibly related to Old English dox, dosc 鈥渄ark,鈥� source of the English noun and adjective dusk. Obfuscate entered English in the first half of the 16th century.
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Of course all this talk of carbon emissions obfuscates the other significant dangers associated with the nuclear cycle.
But it will take moral clarity, which will require both editors and reporters to stop doing things like reflexively hiding behind euphemisms that obfuscate the truth, simply because we鈥檝e always done it that way.
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evanescent
adjective
vanishing; fading away; fleeting.
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The adjective evanescent, 鈥渧anishing, fading,鈥� comes via the French adjective 茅惫补苍别蝉肠别苍迟, from Latin 脓惫腻苍脓蝉肠脓苍蝉 (inflectional stem 脓惫腻苍脓蝉肠别苍迟-), the present participle of the verb 脓惫腻苍脓蝉肠别谤别 鈥渢o disappear, vanish, fade away,鈥� whose root word is the adjective 惫腻苍耻蝉 鈥渆mpty, hollow, illusory,鈥� source of English vain (via Old French). 膾惫腻苍脓蝉肠别谤别 is a compound of the preposition and prefix ex-, 脓- 鈥渙ut, out of, utterly, completely鈥� and the verb 惫腻苍脓蝉肠别谤别 鈥渢o melt into nothing, vanish.鈥� 膾惫腻苍脓蝉肠别谤别 becomes esvanir, evanir in Old French, with a present stem esvaniss-, evaniss-, the source of Middle English vanis(s)hen, “to disappear, disappear suddenly,鈥� English vanish. Evanescent entered English in the early 18th century.
how is evanescent used?
Readers, after enjoying a book, are desperate not to let go of the characters, the evanescent feeling of being in the text.
The pantomime of head-butting and jabbing, with moments when his whole body crumples as if in grief, lasts mere seconds. Every gesture is sharp but evanescent, vanishing as quickly as it takes shape.
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