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sororal
adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of a sister or sisters; sisterly.
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Sororal means simply 鈥渞elating to one鈥檚 sister or sisters; sisterly.鈥� It derives from the Latin noun soror 鈥渟ister鈥� and the English adjective suffix -al, which ultimately comes from the Latin suffix -腻濒颈蝉. Soror comes from Proto-Indo-European 蝉飞茅蝉辞谤- 鈥渟ister,鈥� in Latin going through the stages from swesor to swosor to sworor to soror. 厂飞茅蝉辞谤- appears in Sanskrit as 蝉惫谩蝉补谤-, in Greek as 茅辞谤 (Greek from preliterate times has had trouble with initial and intervocalic s and w, let alone the cluster sw-, all of which usually became h in classical Greek and disappeared in Hellenistic and later Greek). The form 蝉飞茅蝉艒谤 becomes siur in Old Irish and chwaer in Welsh. The Germanic variant swestar yields Gothic swistar, Old Norse systir, which influenced Old English sweostor and suster to become English sister. Sororal entered English in the mid-17th century.
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Greta Gerwig鈥檚 take on Louisa May Alcott鈥檚 novel is intelligent and fleet, refreshing if not radical, and as organic in its feminist convictions as it is in its depiction of close-knit sororal love.
Eva Kor describes having the same sort of sororal telepathy with her twin, Miriam Czaigher. … each seemed to know when the other was in special need.
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bonanza
noun
a source of great and sudden wealth or luck; a spectacular windfall: The play proved to be a bonanza for its lucky backers.
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Bonanza is a Mexican Spanish noun that entered American English in the early 1840s. In Spanish bonanza means 鈥渇air, calm weather (for sailing); prosperity.鈥� Bonanza is a nasalized variant of Vulgar and Medieval Latin bonacia, bonatzia 鈥渃alm sea,鈥� which is a blend of the Latin adjective bon(us) 鈥済ood鈥� and Medieval Latin (mal)acia 鈥渃alm sea,鈥� from Greek 尘补濒补办铆补 鈥渟辞蹿迟苍别蝉蝉.鈥� Bonanza, with a transferred sense 鈥渞ich vein of ore,鈥� was first applied to the gold mines of Placer County, California (1844), and the silver mines of the Comstock Lode, Nevada (1859).
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After Stevie Wonder appeared in a segment, one of his greatest-hits albums jumped to the top of the U.K. iTunes charts, turning 鈥淐arpool Karaoke鈥� into a promotional bonanza.
Over the next three weeks they picked up four new clients, a bonanza by Harvey’s standards.
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obfuscate
verb (used with object)
to make obscure or unclear: to obfuscate a problem with extraneous information.
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The verb obfuscate comes from Late Latin (especially Christian Latin) 辞蹿蹿耻蝉肠腻迟(耻蝉), also 辞产蹿耻蝉肠腻迟(耻蝉), the past participle of 辞蹿蹿耻蝉肠腻谤别 (辞产蹿耻蝉肠腻谤别), literally 鈥渢o darken, obscure.鈥� 翱蹿蹿耻蝉肠腻谤别 is a compound of the preposition and prefix ob, of– 鈥渢oward, against,鈥� also used as an intensive prefix, as here, and the verb 蹿耻蝉肠腻谤别 鈥渢o make dark, become dark.鈥� The Latin root word is the adjective fuscus 鈥渄ark, somber, dim, drab.鈥� Fuscus is possibly related to Old English dox, dosc 鈥渄ark,鈥� source of the English noun and adjective dusk. Obfuscate entered English in the first half of the 16th century.
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Of course all this talk of carbon emissions obfuscates the other significant dangers associated with the nuclear cycle.
But it will take moral clarity, which will require both editors and reporters to stop doing things like reflexively hiding behind euphemisms that obfuscate the truth, simply because we鈥檝e always done it that way.
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