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Meaning: The word synthetic is used both as an adjective and 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 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 use pesticides or synthetic fertilizers.

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Meaning : The word fiasco denotes a complete failure, especially one that is ludicrous or humiliating.

Origin : Attested usage of the word as a theatre slang to denote “a failure in performance can be traced back to 1855. By 1862, the word had acquired the general sense of “any failure or flop

The word comes via the 19th Century French phrase faire fiasco meaning turn out a failure, from Italian far fiasco denoting suffer a complete breakdown in performance” Literally it means “make a bottle” from fiasco “bottle” from Late Latin fiasco meaning “bottle”.

 Since the advent of the word in the 1850s, it has steadily grown in popularity. The number of mentions of the word fiasco, in fact peaked recently in the 21st Century and continues to be close to the peak.

Usage : The students quick thinking averted a fiasco on stage.

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Meaning : This is a noun, and refers to an international sports competition-for people with physical disabilities – that happens every four years immediately after the Olympics.

Origin : The word Paralympics derives from the Greek preposition para (beside or alongside) and the noun Olympics. Its meaning is that it runs parallel to the Olympics, and illustrates how the two movements exist side-by-side.

Usage : She has won her 11th gold medal at this years Paralympics.

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Meaning : Vitamin is a countable noun. Vitamins are organic substances found in foods and they are essential to keep our body healthy. They are also available in synthetic forms. Deficiencies of vitamins can lead to specific disorders.

Origin : The term vitamin has been in use since the early 20th Century. It was originally vitamine, coined by Polish biochemist Casimir Funk in 1912. It was derived from the Latin vita meaning life and English amine, as vitamins were originally thought to contain amino acids. Subsequently, the last ‘e’ got dropped from the word.

Usage : Always try to have a diet rich in vitamins.

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Meaning: Tepid is used as an adjective. It means “not very warm or lukewarm” when it concerns a liquid. For example, you can say, “The tea I had was tepid.” The term is also used to convey people’s lack of enthusiasm towards something.

Origin: The term came from the Latin tepidus, also an adjective meaning “lukewarm”. Tepidus in turn came from the Latin term tepere, a verb meaning “to be warm”.

Usage: The tomato soup served at the restaurant was tepid and watery.

The film received a tepid response from the audience.

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Meaning: This adjective means having no match or equal.

Origin: It is a combination of two French words ‘non’ meaning not and pareil which itself comes from the Latin ‘par, which means equal.

Usage : He is a nonpareil storyteller.

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