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prevaricate
verb (used without object)
to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
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Prevaricate, 鈥渢o deliberately speak falsely,鈥� comes from the Latin verb 辫谤补别惫腻谤颈肠腻谤墨 鈥渢o straddle something,鈥� based on prae 鈥渂efore鈥� and 惫腻谤耻蝉 鈥渂ent outwards, bow-legged.鈥� Potential relatives of 惫腻谤耻蝉 include varius 鈥渟peckled, diverse鈥� (as in variety, various, and vary) and varix 鈥渄ilated vein鈥� (as in varicose). However, because of the simple difference in vowel length between the long 腻 in 惫腻谤耻蝉 and the short a in varius and varix, the linguistic community largely isn鈥檛 convinced that all three are related. Prevaricate was first recorded in English circa 1580.
how is prevaricate used?
Prevaricate. Equivocate. Fib. Call it what you like, it’s still lying. And lying, as everyone knows, is just bad and wrong.
Cottagers, commuters and rural-weekend escape artists are a bunch of liars. I know because I am one. I’ve shamelessly prevaricated with the best of them all summer long…
geitonogamy
noun
pollination of a flower by pollen from another flower on the same plant.
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Geitonogamy 鈥渟elf-pollination of a flower鈥� is a compound based on Ancient Greek 驳别铆迟艒苍 鈥渘eighbor鈥� and the combining form -gamy 鈥渕arriage, union, fertilization.鈥� The form -gamy, in turn, is based on Ancient Greek -驳补尘铆补 鈥渁ct of marrying鈥� (from 驳谩尘辞蝉 鈥渕arriage鈥�) and appears in terms such as allogamy (literally 鈥渟elf-marriage鈥�), bigamy (鈥渕arriage twice鈥�), endogamy (鈥渕arriage within鈥�), exogamy (鈥渕arriage outside鈥�), monogamy (鈥渁lone marriage鈥�), and polygamy (鈥渕any marriage鈥�). Using Latin instead, the Latin equivalent of geitonogamy would be the rather lengthy 鈥�vicinimatrimony鈥� or 鈥�vicininuptials.鈥� Geitonogamy was first recorded in English in the late 1870s.
how is geitonogamy used?
In general, geitonogamy increases as a pollinator visits more flowers on a plant. For example, consider the destinations of pollen removed from the first of five flowers visited by a pollinator on a plant鈥�
de novo
adverb
anew; afresh; again; from the beginning.
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De novo 鈥渁new, from the beginning鈥� is a loan from Latin that comprises 诲脓 鈥渇rom, of, about鈥� and 苍辞惫艒, a form of novus 鈥渘ew.鈥� In English, only pronouns change in form to indicate case, such as subject (I, we), possessive (my, our), and object (me, us) pronouns. In Latin, however, nouns and adjectives also change their endings according to case. In this way, novus is the subject, 苍辞惫墨 is the possessive, novum is the direct object, and 苍辞惫艒 is both the indirect and prepositional object. All these are only the masculine singular forms, however; almost two dozen other forms exist in the plural number and the feminine and neuter genders. No wonder that modern Romance languages decided to simplify things a bit! De novo was first recorded in English in the 1620s.
how is de novo used?
Thiamine originates in the lowest levels of the food web, where particular species of bacteria, phytoplankton, fungi, and plants synthesize the compound de novo… by assembling and linking existing compounds into vitamin B1, which naturally occurs in multiple forms.
In other words, even though a federal court might not review a person鈥檚 disenrollment from their tribe, it can still review the exclusion de novo and, in the process, apply the protections afforded by the federal Bill of Rights.