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chockablock
adjective
extremely full; crowded; jammed: a room chockablock with furniture and plants.
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Chockablock is a nautical term describing the position of tackle when the blocks are drawn close together. From the sense of the blocks being pressed tightly together, chockablock develops the sense “extremely full, crowded.” Chock and block are clear enough: they are synonyms for a wedge or other solid, heavy mass for holding something steady. The only problem with chockablock is the –a-: it is likely a reduced form of and.听 Chockablock entered English at the end of the 18th century.
how is chockablock used?
I have a steel engraving of the Old Harbor chockablock with ships ….
The lyrics and the video are chockablock with suburban Americana signifiers: lawns, pools, divorce.
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breviloquent
adjective
speaking or expressed in a concise or terse style; using brevity of speech.
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Breviloquent means 鈥渟peaking in a concise style.鈥� Breviloquent comes from the Latin adjective 产谤别惫颈濒辞辩耻脓苍蝉 (inflectional stem breviloquent-), a compound of brevis 鈥渟hort鈥� (inflectional stem brevi-) and 濒辞辩耻脓苍蝉, present participle of 濒辞辩耻墨 鈥渢o speak.鈥� Breviloquentia, 鈥渂revity of speech,鈥� the noun derivative of 产谤别惫颈濒辞辩耻脓苍蝉, occurs only once鈥攐ne time!鈥攊n all of Latin literature, in a private letter that Cicero wrote to his close childhood friend, Titus Pomponius Atticus. Breviloquent entered English in the 19th century.
how is breviloquent used?
On the contrary, nothing is more remarkable in the Paston correspondence than the extreme and business-like shortness of most of them. They seem to anticipate the breviloquent era of Sir Rowland Hill.听
Soft-spoken and breviloquent, Nokie Edwards’ gentle manner is contradicted by the quick, clean guitar licks that make him famous as a former member of surf-instro band The Ventures.
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panacea
noun
an answer or solution for all problems or difficulties: His economic philosophy is a good one, but he tries to use it as a panacea.
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Panacea comes from Latin 辫补苍补肠脓补, which had the same meanings of the Greek original, 辫补苍谩办别颈补 鈥渦niversal remedy; the name of a healing plant and its juice.鈥� 笔补苍谩办别颈补 is a compound of the Greek combining form pan– 鈥渁ll,鈥� completely naturalized in English, and the adjective suffix –补办岣梥 鈥渉ealing,鈥� a derivative 谩办辞蝉 鈥渃ure, remedy.鈥� The Greeks had a genius for personification, making, for instance, the common noun 辫别颈迟丑峁� 鈥減ersuasion鈥� into the goddess 笔别颈迟丑峁�. So, too, with 丑测驳铆别颈补 鈥渉ealthy state, good health鈥� becoming the goddess 贬测驳铆别颈补, and 辫补苍谩办别颈补, the goddess 笔补苍谩办别颈补. In fact the first sentence of the Hippocratic Oath (originally dating between the 5th and 3rd centuries b.c.) begins, 鈥淚 swear by Apollo the physician and Asclepius and Hygeia and Panacea and all the gods and goddesses鈥�.鈥� Panacea entered English in the mid-16th century.
how is panacea used?
That could help provide a financial lifeline for the difficult weeks ahead 鈥� but it isn鈥檛 a panacea ….
The panacea of a world state, on the contrary, is doomed to bitter disappointment. A political unification of the nations of the world is impossible while political questions divide mankind.
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