Category word meaning

Meaning: This noun refers to the quality or state of being faithful to someone, such as a spouse, or something, such as one’s country. Fidelity can also refer to accuracy in details. When applied to electronic devices, fidelity is the degree to which those devices accurately reproduce something, such as sound or images.

Origin: This word came to English by the way of French in the 15th Century and is derived from the Latin root Fidelis which means faithful, loyal or trustworthy. While fidelity was originally exclusively about loyalty, it has for centuries also been used to refer to accuracy.

Usage:  The movie takes full advantage of the film medium while maintaining fidelity to the book.

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Meaning: The word synthetic is used as an adjective as well as a noun. It means artificial, unnatural, or man-made. It is also used to describe a person who is insincere or not genuine. As a noun, it means anything made artificially by chemical synthesis.

Origin: The word is said to have been in use in English since the 17th Century. It is derived from French synthétique or modern Latin syntheticus, which in turn came from the Greek word sunthetikos meaning “skilled in putting together, based on “tithenai” meaning “to place together”.

Usage:

• The bag is made of synthetic leather.
• He exudes synthetic compassion, so he cannot be taken seriously.
• It is an organic farm that does not permit use of pesticides or synthetic fertilizers.

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Meaning: This adjective is used to describe someone as excessively particular, difficult to please or fussy.

Origin: This word came about in the 19th Century as an alteration of finical’ which means choosy or demanding.

Usage: The finicky student got upset when her teacher switched the organised schedule.

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Meaning: This adjective is a British slang for very tired. It also means broken or too old to use.

Origin: Knackered is derived from the past participle of knacker, a slang term meaning “to kill” as well as “to tire, exhaust, or wear out.” The origins of the verb knacker are uncertain, but the word is perhaps related to an older noun knacker, which originally referred to a harness-maker, and later referred to a buyer of animals no longer able to do farm work.

Usage: I’m never too knackered to go out with friends.

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Meaning: Predilection is used as a noun which refers to an established preference for something. It implies a strong liking deriving from one’s experience. For instance, if someone has a predilection for something, they like it a lot.

Origin: It is borrowed from French predilection, which in turn comes from the Latin word ‘praedilect’ meaning ‘preferred, from ‘prae’ in advance + ‘diligere’ to select. The term has been in use since the mid-18th Century in English.

Usage:

• She has had a predilection for Thai food ever since she started travelling abroad.
• I have a predilection for ice cream.
• There are two ways to live, by working hard or by taking freebies. They seem to have some predilection for the latter.

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Meaning: The word quirk refers to a particular aspect of a person’s character. On occasions, the word is also used for entities, and not just individuals.

Origin:  Even though quirk has been in use since the 1560s, it remains a word of unknown origin. Some believe that it is perhaps originally a technical term for a flourish or twist in weaving. The word has been used from around 1600 to imply the sense of peculiarity.

The 1830s saw a sudden jump in the number of times the word was used, only to fall to its previous levels as quickly as it had risen. A more gradual increase over nearly 150 years has now seen it reach those heady heights again.

Usage: You have to get used to other people’s quirks when you are working with them on an everyday basis.

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