Category word meaning

Meaning: This adjective means disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess. It also means excessively sweet or sentimental.

Origin: Cloying derives from the verb cloy, which now means “to supply or indulge to excess”, but which once meant “to clog”, and earlier “to prick a horse with a nail in shoeing”. Cloy itself traces via Middle English to Anglo-French encloer (which also meant “to prick a horse with a nail in shoeing”) and ultimately to Latin clavus, meaning “nail”.

Usage: The sweet was rich and tasty without being cloying.

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Meaning: A noun, spiel is a fast speech. It is most often a speech that has been rehearsed well before and is used to convince someone to buy something or agree with something.

Origin: The word traces its origin to its German root, spielen. It is also used as a verb that means “to play music” which is the word’s original meaning if we go by its German root.

Usage: The morning was just breaking and the salesman was already there at our door, ready with his opening spiel.

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Meaning: Usher is used as a verb and a noun. As a verb, it means to show someone where they should go. As a noun, it refers to the person who guides people to their seats in a theatre. It also means to herald something when the term is followed by in.

Origin: The term usher comes from Latin ostiarius meaning doorman or guard posted at the entrance of a building, from ostium meaning ‘door’. It is said to have entered late Middle English (denoting a doorkeeper) from Anglo-Norman French usser, which in turn came from medieval Latin ustiarius.

Usage: When we showed our tickets, the usher helped us to find our seats in the dark in the cinema.

Beautiful cherry blossoms usher in spring.

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Meaning: This noun is used to refer to various rhythmic or repeated motions, activities, or patterns of sound. It can also be used to describe a falling inflexion of the voice.

Origin: This word comes from Middle English borrowed from Medieval Latin’s own cadentia which means rhythm in verse.

Usage: Stephanie relaxed at the beach, listening to the cadence of the surf.

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Meaning: This noun refers to a government in which power is held by a small group of people.

Origin: In use since the late 15th Century, it has its origin in the Greek work oligarkhia, from oligoi, meaning ‘few’, and arkhein, meaning ‘to rule’.

Usage: Citizens now start to wonder if their country is an oligarchy, after all.

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Meaning: Glutinous, used as an adjective, means sticky, gummy or having the properties of an adhesive.

Origin: The term glutinous comes from Old French glutineux or Latin glutinosus, which in turn derives from gluten meaning ‘glue’. The term has been in use since the late 15th Century

Usage: The report traces the origin of glutinous rice to Southeast Asia. The glutinous bun has a sweet chewy texture.

The sauce was glutinous.

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