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  2. List of Greek and Latin roots in English/V - Wikipedia

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    Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples vac-empty: Latin: vacare: evacuate, vacancy, vacant, vacate, vacation, vacuous, vacuum vacc-

  3. Willy-nilly (idiom) - Wikipedia

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    The term was popularized from Shakespeare's Hamlet (1599-1601). [11]The earliest ancestor of "willy-nilly" is the Old English, "sam we willan sam we nyllan" ('whether we wish to or wish not to'), found in King Ælfred's translation of De Consolatione Philosophiæ in 888 AD. [12]

  4. Translanguaging - Wikipedia

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    Translanguaging can also enhance lexical skills such as word naming and application [48] as some cognates support comprehension and morphological understanding in different languages. [49] For example, "water" in English is similar to "water" in Dutch, and "green" in English is like "groen" in Dutch.

  5. Word list Drawing up a comprehensive list of words in English is important as a reference when learning a language as it will show the equivalent words you need to learn in the other language to achieve fluency.

  6. List of Greek and Latin roots in English/P–Z - Wikipedia

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    The following is an alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes commonly used in the English language from P to Z. See also the lists from A to G and from H to O.

  7. El Vacilón de la Mañana - Wikipedia

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    El Vacilón de la Mañana is a Spanish language weekday morning radio show. The show originates from WSKQ-FM in New York City, a Spanish radio station branded as "Mega 97.9", and it is syndicated live to a number of different markets in the US such as Providence, Rhode Island; Miami and Orlando, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Hartford, Connecticut; and Puerto Rico.

  8. Narcissistic mortification - Wikipedia

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    Kohut considered that “if the grandiosity of the narcissistic self has been insufficiently modified...then the adult ego will tend to vacillate between an irrational overestimation of the self and feelings of inferiority and will react with narcissistic mortification to the thwarting of its ambitions”. [9]

  9. Neoclassical compound - Wikipedia

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    When a form stands alone as a present-day word, it is usually a telescopic abbreviation: bio biography, chemo chemotherapy, hydro hydroelectricity, metro metropolitan. Some telescoped forms are shorter than the original neoclassical combining form: gynie is shorter than gyneco- and stands for both gynecology and gynecologist ; anthro is shorter ...