{"id":10781,"date":"2025-04-01T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uninter.edu.mx\/ehli\/?p=10781"},"modified":"2025-01-09T19:58:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T19:58:05","slug":"words-you-always-have-to-look-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uninter.edu.mx\/ehli\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/words-you-always-have-to-look-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Words You Always Have to Look Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list of some words you always have to look up so you can improve your vocabulary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nonplussed<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s so much going on with nonplussed. First of all, if non- means \u201cnot\u201d (nontoxic) or \u201cunimportant\u201d (nonissues), what is being negated? What is the opposite of being plussed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It turns out that nonplus comes from the Latin words non plus, meaning \u201cno more,\u201d and originally referred to a point in reasoning or argument at which \u201cone is unable to proceed or decide,\u201d according to Noah Webster\u2019s definition from 1828. It meant \u201ca state of bafflement or perplexity,\u201d a synonym of quandary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nonplussed, therefore, means \u201cperplexed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Anodyne<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes words sort of seem to telegraph their meaning: pernicious sounds like a bad thing rather than a good thing, and beatific sounds like something to be desired as opposed to something to be avoided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is all fairly subjective, of course, but the sounds of words can have an effect on how we perceive them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anodyne doesn\u2019t give us many clues in that way. It turns out that anodyne is a good thing: it means \u201cserving to alleviate pain\u201d or \u201cinnocuous,\u201d from the Greek word with similar meanings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Supercilious<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Supercilious is a five-syllable word used to describe people who are arrogant and haughty or give off a superior attitude. It comes from the Latin word meaning \u201ceyebrow,\u201d and was used in Latin to refer to the expression of arrogant people, and this meaning was transferred to English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amusingly, the word supercilious was added to some dictionaries in the 1600s\u2014a time when many Latin words were translated literally into English\u2014with the meanings \u201cpertaining to the eyebrows\u201d or \u201chaving great eyebrows.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This use is now rare enough to raise an eyebrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stochastic<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This word has been in the news in recent years, but still has a ring of scientific or legal jargon\u2014sending many people to the dictionary to check its meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In scientific and technical uses, stochastic usually means \u201cinvolving probability\u201d or \u201cdetermined by probability,\u201d and is frequently paired with words like demand, model, processing, and volatility. Stochastic comes from the Greek word meaning \u201cskillful at aiming,\u201d which had become a metaphor for \u201cguessing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Anathema<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Anathema means \u201csomething or someone that is strongly disliked\u201d and was initially used to refer to a person who had been excommunicated from the Catholic church. It came from Greek through Latin into English with the meaning of \u201ccurse\u201d or \u201cthing devoted to evil,\u201d but today refers to anything that is disapproved of or to be avoided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a strangeness about the way this word is used in a sentence. Because anathema is usually used without an or the, as in \u201craincoats are anathema to high fashion\u201d or \u201cthose ideas are anathema in this class\u201d it may seem just odd enough to send people to the dictionary when they encounter it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-right\">Merriam-Webster<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uninter.edu.mx\/ehli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Blog EHLI<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ehli.uninter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram EHLI<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dheiuninter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook EHLI<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a list of some words you always have to look up so you can improve your vocabulary Nonplussed There\u2019s so much going on with nonplussed. 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