Two words, same meaning

In our series, “Word Up: Live!” this morning, we looked at two English words.  Here they are: Loquacious: talkative; garrulous; apt to blab and disclose secrets. Loquacious comes from the Latin verb loquor, meaning “I speak”. Here are a few example...

Luposlipaphobia

Another terrifying thought from Word Up: Live! Luposlipaphobia: fear of being chased around the table by timber wolves. From Latin lupus (wolf), English slip, and Greek φόβος (fear). (Thanks, Gary Larson). Join for free.  Jennifer and Kimberly are getting up at 4:30...

Intro to the Word Power class.

During this class, we will read through all of Word Power Made Easy, by Norman Lewis. 90% of the multi-syllable words in English derive directly from Latin.  In other words, 90% of our “big” words are the children of Latin.  Much of our scientific and medical...

Age for the Vocabulary class?

I received this question about the vocabulary class: Do you have a target age for this class? Here is my reply.  Warning.  It gets a little weird. I apologize for the delay.  On the road for weeks.  Home now.  Catching up. This class is more for high school/college...

Natality

Natality: the birth rate. In philosophy, natality is human innovation. Natality is the human ability to create new ideas out of nothing. Natality comes from the French natalité, which derives from the Latin word natal. Natal means “birthday.” Since today...