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Jedi
noun
a person who has an unexplainable power over people or things, or who seems to enjoy unusual luck and positive outcomes, as if able to exert the power of the Force to mystically influence the universe: The defense lawyer was a jedi鈥攖wo minutes into his closing argument the jury forgot all of the incriminating evidence that had been presented.
More about Jedi
If you are from a galaxy far, far away, you will know what a Jedi is (a member of an order of warrior monks). The order and word were formed a long, long time ago in another galaxy, but in this one the word dates only to 1973.
how is Jedi used?
In the Senate, the outspoken Paul and McConnell, the methodical Jedi of the upper chamber, would sometimes disagree on tactics.
In December 2010, McGuire made a pilgrimage to听Black Sheep Bikes听in Fort Collins, Colo., to learn at the hands of an acknowledged Jedi of bike frame fabrication, James Bleakley.
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domicile
noun
a place of residence; abode; house or home.
More about domicile
Domicile is a very legal-sounding word. Its general meaning is 鈥減lace of residence, abode, house or home鈥�; its legal meaning is 鈥減ermanent legal residence, as for tax obligations or voting rights.鈥� (Thus one may be domiciled in New York, paying state income taxes there and voting there, but also have a weekend residence in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania.) Domicile comes from Middle French, from Latin domicilium, formed from the noun domus 鈥渉ouse, home鈥� and the suffix –cilium, of uncertain etymology, but probably derived from colere 鈥渢o live in, inhabit, dwell鈥� (the source of English colony). Latin domicilium has no legal meaning. Domicile entered English in the 15th century.
how is domicile used?
We drove into an older section of the downtown, down a street of brick row houses, and ended up in front of the family’s old domicile …
Choosing the latter alternative, I began by making up my mind to leave the hotel, and take up my quarters in some less pretentious and less expensive domicile.听
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sedentary
adjective
accustomed to sit or rest a great deal or to take little exercise.
More about sedentary
There is unfortunately no more apt a word right now than sedentary, 鈥渁ccustomed to sit or rest a great deal or to take little exercise.鈥� Sedentary comes via Middle French 蝉茅诲别苍迟补颈谤别 from Latin 蝉别诲别苍迟腻谤颈耻蝉 鈥渟itting, sedentary.鈥� 厂别诲别苍迟腻谤颈耻蝉 is a derivative of 蝉别诲脓苍蝉 (stem sedent-), the present participle of 蝉别诲脓谤别 鈥渢o sit,鈥� and the very common adjective and noun suffix –腻谤颈耻蝉, which becomes -aire in French and French borrowings into English (as in doctrinaire, millionaire) and –ary in English (as in complimentary, visionary). Sedentary entered English in the 16th century.
how is sedentary used?
Picture yourself, Jack, a confirmed home-body, a sedentary fellow who finds himself walking in a deep wood.
His love of books, his sedentary habits, and quick wit on matters of learning, led those interested in his fate to consider him fitted for the church, and therefore, he took priest鈥檚 orders.听
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