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taciturn
adjective
inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation.
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Taciturn ultimately derives from Latin taciturnus 鈥渒eeping silent, saying nothing, silent by habit or disposition,鈥� a derivative of tacitus, past participle of 迟补肠脓谤别 鈥渢o say nothing, be silent.鈥� 罢补肠脓谤别 and its derivatives come from an uncommon Proto-Indo-European root tak-, 迟补办脓- 鈥渢o be silent.鈥� Tak- regularly becomes thah- in Germanic, yielding Gothic thahan 鈥渢o keep silent, hold one鈥檚 peace,鈥� and Old Icelandic thagna 鈥渂ecome silent.鈥� Tak- in Celtic yields Welsh tagu and Breton taga 鈥渟trangling, choking鈥� (one way of obtaining silence). Taciturn entered English in the 18th century.
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Ern艖 Rubik has often been painted as a taciturn loner, a grudging genius who built a beautiful object he hoped would create an introspective space where individuals could consider the elegance of geometry, and who instead became an icon for one of the great marketing crazes of all time.
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clamber
verb (used with or without object)
to climb, using both feet and hands; climb with effort or difficulty.
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Clamber, 鈥渢o climb using hands and feet, with effort or difficulty,鈥� comes from Middle English clambren (also clameren, clemeren), possibly a frequentative verb from climben (also clemme, climme, klimbe, clomme) 鈥渢o climb.鈥� Further etymology is unsatisfying: it has been suggested that clamber is a blend of Old English climban 鈥渢o climb鈥� and 肠濒忙尘尘补苍 鈥渢o press鈥�; clamber is akin to Old Norse klambra 鈥渢o hook onto,鈥� and Middle High German klamben and German klammern, both meaning 鈥渢o clamp tightly.鈥� Clamber entered English in the second half of the 14th century.
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Outdoor restaurant tables and chairs could be seen bobbing in the waters, and tourists were forced to clamber through the windows of high-end hotels as the water rose to about six feet before 11 p.m. on Tuesday.
He began to聽clamber聽as fast as he could out of the enclosed space, his feet scrabbling at the wall and knocking bricks free.
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fungible
adjective
being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
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Fungible, with its precise definition 鈥�(especially of goods) of such a kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable for another of similar kind,鈥� is pretty much restricted to law and finance. However the term is also used with a more general meaning of “interchangeable.” Fungible comes from Medieval Latin fungibilis 鈥渦seful, interchangeable,鈥� used especially in the legal term r膿s fungibil膿s 鈥渇ungible things, interchangeable items.鈥� Fungibilis is a derivation of Latin 蹿耻苍驳墨 鈥渢o perform the office of, enjoy.鈥� 贵耻苍驳墨 forms part of the idiomatic phrase 蹿耻苍驳墨 vice or 蹿耻苍驳墨 pr艒 鈥渢o take the place of,鈥� which supplies the meaning for fungibilis. Fungible entered English in the mid-17th century.
how is fungible used?
Facebook and Google need content, but it鈥檚 all fungible.
Given that the Hong Kong-listed shares and the New York ones will be completely fungible, Alibaba can easily sell $13 billion of shares … at a small discount to its current share price.
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