wordsmith august 2019 word

pareiodolia

pronunciation: (per-eye-DOH-lee-uh)

meaning:  The tendency to see a specific pattern or meaningful images in random stimulus

POS: noun

Etymology: From German Pareidolien, from Greek para- (along) + eidolon (image), from eidos (form, idea).

usage: Perhaps pareidolia explains how changing clouds inspired widespread reports of armies in the sky during the political upheavals of the 1600s.”

Paul Simons; Weather Eye; The Times (London, UK); Mar 23, 2017.

prefix: pare= arrange, assemblage, two

suffix: none

wordsmith september 2019

Gonzo

pronunciation: (GON-zo)

meaning: Having a bizarre, subjective, idiosyncratic style, especially in journalism.

POS: adjective

Etymology: Coined by Bill Cardoso, journalist and author, in 1971. It was first used in a published work by Hunter S.

usage: Hendrix, backed by his new band Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, launched into a fierce two-hour set that produced one of the greatest filmed moments of the 60s

prefix: none

suffix: zo= animal

wordsmith October 2019 word

apophenia

pronunciation: (a-puh-FEE-nee-uh)

meaning: The perception of connections or meaning in unrelated or random phenomena.

POS: noun

Etymology: From German Apophänie, from Greek apo- (away, off, apart) + phainein (to show).

usage: It was apophenia, which made you see the shape of a person in what were only cigarette fumes floating in the air.

prefix: apo= away from, detached, formed

suffix: ia= names, diseases

wordsmith novermber 2019 word

bareknuckle

pronunciation: (BER-NUHK-uhl)

meaning:

1.  Without using boxing gloves
2. Rough; unrestrained by rules or scruples.

POS: adjective, adverb

Etymology: From bare, from Old English baer + knuckle, diminutive of Middle Low German knoke (bone). Earliest documented use: 1883.

usage: “This will be bareknuckle brawl on the mountainside and the strongest, smartest rider will win.”

prefix: bar= weight, pressure

suffix: none

munich

pronunciation: [ myoo-nik ]

meaing: a city in and the capital of Bavaria, in SW Germany.

POS: noun

etymology: Bavarian capital, German München, from root of Mönch "monk" (see monk); founded 1158 as a market town by Benedictine monks.

 usage: munich When German researcher began working on a new

Latin dictionary in

the 1890s

prefix: none

suffix: none

vicissitudes

pronunciation: [ vi-sis-i-tood, -tyood ]

meaning: a change of

circumstances or

fortune, typically one

that is unwelcome or

unpleasant.

POS: noun

etymology: "a passing from one state to another," whether regular or not, 1560s, from Middle French vicissitude

usage: anything else that

survived the

vicissitudes of the

last two thousand

years

prefix: vic= change, substitute

suffix: none

scholarly

pronunciation: [ skol-er-lee ]

meaning: involving or relating to

serious academic

study

POS: Adj

etymology: 1630s, from scholar + -ly 

usage: A scholarly project

of painstaking

exactness and

glacial speed

prefix: none

suffix: ly= in a manner of

coveted

pronunciation: [ kuhv-it ]

meaing: greatly desired or

envied.

POS: verb

etyomology: much-desired, much sought-after," by 1875, past-participle adjective from covet

usage: Some assignments

are more coveted

than others

prefix: none

suffix: ed= past tense

subdivided

pronunciation: [ suhb-di-vahyd, suhb-di-vahyd ]

meaning: divide (something that

has already been

divided or that is a

separate unit).

POS: verb

etymology: early 15c. (transitive), from Late Latin subdividere from sub in the sense of "resulting from further division"

usage: subdivided by

capital Roman

numerals, then

capital letters, then

Arabic numerals

prefix: sub= under, below, from, secretly, instead of

suffix: ed= past tense

excrusiating

pronunciation:/ikskrooSHēādiNG/

meaning: intensely painful.

POS: Adj

etymology:  1590s, present-participle adjective from excruciate.Related: Excruciatingly.

usage: i have a excrusiating back pain that wont go away

reconstruct

pronunciation: /rēknstrkt/

meaning: build or form (something) again after it has been damaged or destroyed.

POS: verb

etymology: 1768, "to build anew," from re- "back, again" + construct (v.). Meaning "to restore (something) mentally" is attested from 1862. Related: Reconstructed; reconstructing.

usage: a robot got reconstructed in class today