Words with Interesting Etymologies
... are more words to describe people who fall on the wrong side than on the other. Here we look at five such words. scrofulous (SKROF-yuh-luhs) adjective 1. Of, pertaining to, or affected with scrofula. ... on. That’s not to say that the stories behind words aren’t interest- ing. Most words have fascinating histories; it’s just that they are not as cut-and-dried. Words have biographies—we call them etymolo- gies—that ... (true) + dire (to speak). 150 CHAPTER 36 Words from the World of Law II cmp04.qxd 7/21/05 12:27 PM Page 150 In this chapter we”ll look at a few terms with etymologies that make for entertaining...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 16:20
... becloud, especially with or as with drink. muffle v. To deaden the sound of, as by wraps. mulatto n. The offspring of a white person and a black person. 5000 Collegiate Words with Brief Definitions ... utterance or act, or stress laid upon some word. emphasize v. To articulate or enunciate with special impressiveness upon a word, or a group of words. emphatic adj. Spoken with any special ... v. To endow with some quality, gift, or grace, usually spiritual. endurable adj. Tolerable. endurance n. The ability to suffer pain, distress, hardship, or stress of any kind without succumbing....
Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 12:15
... 5000 Collegiate Words with Brief Definitions – Amass an Ivy League Vocabulary! EASY 7-CD Edition: All you have to do is listen 15 minutes a day for 4 weeks to absorb 5000 words. + FREE Memory ... 5000 Collegiate Words with Brief Definitions – Amass an Ivy League Vocabulary! EASY 7-CD Edition: All you have to do is listen 15 minutes a day for 4 weeks to absorb 5000 words. + FREE Memory ... Truthfulness. verbatim adv. Word for word. verbiage n. Use of many words without necessity. verbose adj. Wordy. verdant adj. Green with vegetation. verification n. The act of proving to be true,...
Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 18:15
Tài liệu 5000 Collegiate Words with Brief Definitions ppt
... mesmerize v. To hypnotize. 5000 Collegiate Words with Brief Definitions 5000 Collegiate Words with Brief Definitions – Amass an Ivy League Vocabulary! EASY 7-CD ... utterance or act, or stress laid upon some word. emphasize v. To articulate or enunciate with special impressiveness upon a word, or a group of words. emphatic adj. Spoken with any special ... v. To endow with some quality, gift, or grace, usually spiritual. endurable adj. Tolerable. endurance n. The ability to suffer pain, distress, hardship, or stress of any kind without succumbing....
Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 03:16
Synonyms are different words with identical or very similar meanings
... synonymous words could be understood as the words or phrases with the same denotative meaning in a certain language and interchangeable in some contexts. II. Sources of synonyms II.1.Borrowings Many words ... from Greek, Latin and French and they became synonyms to native words forming the synonymic groups. For example: Native English words Borrowed from French Borrowed from Latin 2 English Synonym References Books: 1.Crowther.(1991).Oxford ... etc… -remembering the synonymous words that everybody knows, do not use the words the listeners or readers do not know and do not understand. -using synonymous words when a word is repeated over...
Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2014, 13:38
báo cáo hóa học: " Patient satisfaction with primary care: an observational study comparing anthroposophic and conventional care" pptx
... more often could reflect a higher risk of side effects or drug interactions with con- ventional drugs or with drugs taken without knowledge of the physician. Further aspects could be the missing ... in studies without a control group, improve- ment of symptoms), yet methodological problems limit the validity of many of these studies. Patient satisfaction with AM was very high, within the scope ... the consultation with AM physicians more as a 'dialogue' or 'two way process' compared to the rush consultation with a CON physician [12]. Moreover, our results were consist- ent with...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
báo cáo hóa học:" The net cost of incorporating resistance testing into HIV/AIDS treatment in South Africa: a Markov model with primary data" pot
... copies/ml, but without laboratory evidence of viral resistance. We modelled the net cost of adding resistance testing for patients with virological failure and retaining patients without resistance ... maintenance (standard care without resistance testing, switch all failures to second line); resistance testing (resistance test for patients with failure, switch those with resistance); and limited ... cost of incorporating resistance testing into HIV/AIDS treatment in South Africa: a Markov model with primary data Sydney Rosen 1,2,3* , Lawrence Long 2,3 , Ian Sanne 2,3 , Wendy S Stevens 4,5 and...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20
Lead–acid bipolar battery assembled with primary chemically formed positive pasted electrode pdf
... produced with: (1) lead substrate and conventional electroforming; (2) carbon doped polyethylene substrate with conventional electroforming; (3) carbon doped polyethylene substrate with chemical ... Table 2. XRD analysis showed that cathodes types 3 (dip- ping method without electrochemical forming) and 4 (mixing method without electrochemical forming) have -PbO 2 /␣-PbO 2 weight ratio of ... oxidized electrodes were washed with distilled water and dried at 60 ◦ C for 12 h. Then, the negative terminating electrode and the other side of bipolar electrodes were pasted with the negative paste. The...
Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 21:20
words with a high frequency
... covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room. alleviate To make less burdensome or less hard to bear. aloof Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others. amalgamate ... speak the truth. veracity Truthfulness. verbiage Use of many words without necessity. verbose Wordy. verdant Green with vegetation. veritable Real; true; genuine. vestige A visible ... For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at www.tailieuduhoc.org 1 Words with a High Frequency aberrant Markedly different from an accepted norm. aberration Deviation...
Ngày tải lên: 09/07/2014, 12:34
English Grammar Tests-Elementary Level''''s archiveCompound words with ‘tooth’ ppt
... this afternoon? toothpaste English Grammar Tests-Elementary Level's archive Compound words with ‘tooth’ 1.I usually take a to work so I can clean my teeth thoroughly after I have eaten...
Ngày tải lên: 26/07/2014, 06:20
Báo cáo toán học: " ASYMPTOTICS OF THE NUMBER OF k-WORDS WITH AN -DESCENT" pot
... Regev, Asymptotic values for degrees associated with strips of Young diagrams, Adv. in Math. 41 (1981), 115–136. ASYMPTOTICS OF THE NUMBER OF k -WORDS WITH AN -DESCENT Amitai Regev ∗ Department ... ···<i ≤ n such that w i 1 > ···>w i (trivially, such words exist if and only if ≤ k). Let W(k, ; n) denote the set of words in W(k; n) having descent ≤ , and denote w(k, ; n)=|W ... irreducible character of the symmetric group S n . A k-tableau of shape λ is a tableau filled with 1, ···,k possibly with repetitions; it is semi-standard if the numbers are weakly increasing in rows and...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 06:22
Báo cáo toán học: "On Minimal Words With Given Subword Complexity." pdf
... V i consists of words that begin with exactly (n − i)0’s. In addition, V n can be partitioned into n − 1 disjoint subsets V 0 n , ,V n−2 n where each V i n consists of words of V i with the first ... be partitioned into two sets S n,0 and S n,1 where S n,0 contains words that begin with 0 and S n,1 contains words that begin with 1. Since no word of S n contains 11, it is easy to see that |S n,1 | ... shortest word containing as subwords all 2 n binary words of length n is 2 n + n − 1. In the same year de Bruijn [B46] gave a complete enumeration of all such words (see also [B75]). The converse...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 06:22
Báo cáo toán học: "Words with intervening neighbours in infinite Coxeter groups are reduced" doc
... Coxeter graph G has the property that all words with intervening neighbours a re reduced, this property also holds for the graph G ′ obtained by extending G with a vertex s ′ and an edge s s ′ . Proof. ... root automaton to a big root b efore it reaches a negative root. (Fo r example, in ˜ E 6 with the center vertex as s, we start with a 1 on s, then we get 1 on its neighbours, then 2 on s, then 2 ... the root automaton for recognition of reduced words. 1 Words with intervening neighbours Let G be the Coxeter graph of a Coxeter group with generators S. Consider a word w in the alphabet S. Definition...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo y học: "Estrogen receptor-α gene haplotype is associated with primary knee osteoarthritis in Korean population" docx
... To investigate ER-α gene polymorphisms for its associations with primary knee OA, we conducted a case–control association study in patients with primary knee OA (n = 151) and healthy individuals (n ... OA patients with a good and those with a poor index, and control individuals were not significantly different (Table 4). Estrogen receptor-α haplotype analysis in patients with primary knee ... χ 2 test with 3 ì 2 contingency table. b Control versus patients using the 2 test with 2 ì 2 contingency table. c Early onset osteoarthritis OA patients were defined as those with disease...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23
Báo cáo y học: "Increased serum levels of macrophage migration inhibitory factor in patients with primary Sjögren''''s syndrome" potx
... patients with B-cell lymphoma had increased MIF levels compared with healthy controls, but there were no sig- nificant differences from patients with pSS without B-cell lymphoma. Patients with pSS ... patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) and to examine associations of MIF with clinical, serological and immunological variables. MIF was determined by ELISA in the sera of 76 patients with ... levels with laboratory and clinical features Patients with hypergammaglobulinemia (n = 57) had signifi- cantly increased levels of MIF compared with healthy controls (p < 0.01) and compared with...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo y học: "Mycophenolate sodium treatment in patients with primary Sjögren syndrome: a pilot trial" potx
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21
báo cáo khoa học: "Solitary pulmonary nodule of benign metastasizing leiomyoma associated with primary lung cancer: a case report" ppt
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:20
Báo cáo y học: "Tuberculous peritonitis in a German patient with primary biliary cirrhosis: a case report" pps
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:20