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mitzvah
noun
any good or praiseworthy deed.
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Mitzvah 鈥渓aw, divine law, commandment鈥� is probably most familiar to Americans in the phrases bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah 鈥渟on / daughter of the Law / commandment,鈥� the ceremony making the young person responsible for observing the Law. Mitzvah represents a modern pronunciation of Hebrew 尘颈葯飞腻丑 鈥渃ommand, commandment.鈥� There also exists the developed meaning of 尘颈葯飞腻丑 鈥済ood deed performed in fulfillment of a commandment,鈥� such as the obligation to love one鈥檚 neighbor as oneself. Mitzvah entered English in the mid-17th century.
how is mitzvah used?
Wearing something new for a festive occasion is a mitzvah, a commandment and good deed in Jewish law.
Here鈥檚 what I learned: it鈥檚 a mitzvah for humanity that I didn鈥檛 take my parents鈥� advice about becoming a doctor.
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abscond
verb (used without object)
to depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoid capture and legal prosecution.
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Abscond ultimately comes from Latin abscondere, 鈥渢o hide away, stow away, store away,鈥� a double compound verb formed from the preposition and prefix abs, abs-, a variant of ab, ab– 鈥渁way, away from,鈥� and the compound verb condere 鈥渢o put in or into, store away, put away鈥� (formed from the familiar prefix con-, here used with intensive force 鈥渢horoughly, completely,鈥� and –dere 鈥渢o put,鈥� a verb used only in compounds). The usual modern meaning of abscond 鈥渢o depart in a sudden and secret manner, so as to avoid capture and prosecution,鈥� does not occur in Latin but developed in English during the 17th century. It is a reflexive or passive use of the verb: 鈥渢o hide oneself, hide oneself away (from), flee, flee from prosecution.鈥� Abscond entered English in the second half of the 16th century in the sense 鈥渢o conceal, obscure.鈥�
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Mr. Angiolillo鈥檚 descendants say that their stepbrother absconded with the diamond after his mother died in 2009, but the stepbrother, Marco Milella, has insisted that he inherited the stone from his mother and that it was his to sell, according to court records.
In a complaint filed in the Central District of California, the three principals were charged not only with running the site but also with planning an 鈥渆xit scam,鈥� in which they intended to abscond with some eleven million dollars being held in users鈥� accounts.
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infodemic
noun
a massive amount of widely and rapidly circulating information about a particular crisis or controversial issue, consisting of a confusing combination of fact, falsehood, rumor, and opinion.
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Infodemic, a transparent blend of info(rmation) and (epi)demic, was coined in 2003 by David J. Rothkopf, an American political scientist and journalist. Prof. Rothkopf was referring specifically to the profusion of information, misinformation, rumor, and outright falsehoods during the SARS epidemic of 2003.
how is infodemic used?
Yet if information is the disease, knowledge is also a cure. We should react to infodemics just as we do to diseases.
Her aim was to assess and stop a global spread鈥攏ot of the dangerous virus but of hazardous false information. She wanted to halt what her colleagues at the health agency are calling an 鈥�infodemic.鈥�
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