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corrigible
adjective
subject to being revised, improved, or made more accurate: a corrigible theory.
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It is curious that corrigible 鈥渟ubject to being revised, improved, or made more accurate鈥� is much less common than its opposite, incorrigible. Corrigible ultimately comes from Medieval Latin corrigiblis, a derivative of Latin corrigere 鈥渢o correct, amend, improve, rectify.鈥� Corrigibilis does not occur in classical Latin, but incorrigibilis occurs in Seneca, the first-century a.d. Roman philosopher and man of letters. Corrigible entered English in the 15th century.
how is corrigible used?
First, policy decisions demand closure, conclusiveness, and certainty. By contrast, science is by its nature cautious, contingent, and corrigible.
He cautioned against a colonizing mindset that too readily collapses the distance between one鈥檚 self and another; empathy, in Stein鈥檚 definition, is 鈥�corrigible, always something to be learned.鈥�
krewe
noun
a private social club that sponsors balls, parades, etc., as part of the Mardi Gras festivities, especially in New Orleans.
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Krewe is a fanciful or archaized spelling of crew 鈥渁 group of people engaged in a particular kind of work.鈥� 颁谤别飞听comes from Middle French creue “increase” from Old French creu, past participle of the verb creistre “to grow.” Old French creistre develops from the Latin verb聽肠谤脓蝉肠别谤别, the ultimate source of the words crescent and croissant. Krewe is first attested in English in 1857.
how is krewe used?
On the morning of Shrove Tuesday, families lined up on St. Charles Ave. to watch the main event of the Carnival鈥攖he parade of Rex, the second-oldest parading krewe.
Davis lovingly previewed the ritual of revelry: on the Friday before Fat Tuesday he and his聽krewe鈥攕ome 500 strong鈥攚ill gather for lunch and ribald jokes.
realpolitik
noun
political realism or practical politics, especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
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Realpolitik still feels like a German word. It was coined by Ludwig von Rochau, a 19th-century German politician and journalist, in his Grunds盲tze der Realpolitik 鈥淧rinciples of Practical Politics鈥� (1853). Real in German means 鈥渞ealistic, practical, objective,鈥� and Realpolitik means 鈥渞ealistic politics, practical politics,鈥� that is, politics based primarily on power, national interests, and material factors and not on explicit ideological or moral or ethical premises. Realpolitik entered English in the second half of the 19th century.
how is realpolitik used?
Throughout, Ms. Warren has kept one eye trained on policy and the other on realpolitik: protecting her aspirational brand of liberalism and robbing Republicans (and her Democratic rivals) of a potent talking point about middle-class taxes.
… the cynic also had not counted on how ruthless the man could be in attaching himself to cold realpolitik after building his entire campaign鈥攏ay, his entire political career鈥攐n a notion of political transcendence.