Meaning: This transition verb refers to decorating something or beautifying an object.
Origin: Both embellish and the French word ‘bel’ (meaning beautiful) originate from the same Latin root bellus. The first known use of this word can be traced back to the 14th Century.
Usage : Grandma likes to embellish her knitting by hiding secret messages in the pattern.
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Meaning: Calibre means the level of someone’s intelligence or the standard of something, especially when it is high. It also indicates the diameter of a gun barrel or tube. It is used as a noun.
Origin: The term comes from the French calibre meaning “social standing or importance”, from Italian calibro, from Arabic qalib “a mould for casting” which in turn was based on the Greek kalapous “a shoemaker’s last. The earliest sense of the word in English meant “degree of merit or importance”. Over time it came to indicate “one’s intellectual capacity.” The term is said to have been in use since the mid 16th Century.
Usage:
He was very much impressed by the high calibre of his interns.
The organisation cannot afford to lose a woman of her calibre.
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Meaning: Sacrilege means violation of what is considered sacred. It is an act of treating something important without respect. In other words, it means being disrespectful to something people admire or revere.
Origin: Sacrilege came into English from the Latin sacrilegium which in turn came from sacrilegus meaning “stealer of sacred things” from the Latin roots sacer meaning “sacred” and legere meaning “to steal or take possession of’.
Usage:
It is sacrilege to propose a road tunnel near the ancient monument.
Sending a guest away without food is sacrilege in my house.
The damage done to the painting in the name of restoration is sacrilege. Activity: Use the word in a sentence of your own.
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Meaning : The noun refers to a magical spirit, originally in traditional stories from Arab, who does or provides whatever the person who controls it asks.
Origin: This mid-17th Century word is said to have originated from the French word génie, deriving from Latin genius, meaning guardian deity. It was used in the current sense by the 18th-Century French translators of The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, because of its resemblance in form and sense to the Arabic word jinni – the singular of jinn, referring to demons. spirits, angels.
Usage : She rubbed the lamp and waited for a genie.
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Meaning : The word dink is used in sport to refer to a softly struck hit or kick of the ball such that it drops abruptly to the ground.
Origin : Its first use can be traced back to 1939, when it was used in lawn tennis to refer to a drop shot. It has since then been used in many other sports as well, especially in football
The word also has a very specific usage in Australia. In that context, the word can be used to denote giving a lift on a bicycle.
Usage : Professionals make it look so easy, but dinking a football past a tall goalkeeper is no easy feat.
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Meaning: This verb is used to make an indirect reference
Origin: It comes from the Latin word alludere, which means ‘to play with,’ and shares the root of Latin ludere (to play) with other English words, such as ludicrous and delude. One of the former meanings of allude was to engage in wordplay’ but this meaning is now long obsolete.
Usage : Mrs. Simons alluded to some health problems, without being specific.
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