Student Found Word Examples:
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Word
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Meaning *
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Language of Origin
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Root Meaning
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When/Where Found
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| feng shui | Chinese art of placing objects | Chinese (Mandarin) | feng = wind, shui = water | Heard in in conversation, February 20, 1995 |
| emeritus | Retired but retaining a title formerly held | Latin |
e (ex) = from, mereti = to deserve, earn |
Title of my philosophy professor Henry Ellers, Sept 3, 1966. |
| topiary (artist) | Of the trimming of ornamental shrubs | Greek through Latin | topion (diminutive of topos) = feild | Read on an advertisement of A Man Named Pearl, August 15, 2008 (knew but had forgotten or not used the word) |
| jog | to move by shoving or bumping; to run at a steady slow trot | ME(Middle English) | shoggen or shokken (modern shaken) = to shake, move with a jerk | Know the word, of course, but wanted an example and did not know the root derivation. August 16, 2008 |
* The definition CANNOT be derived from an on-line dictionary other than those cited in Vocabualry Development notes (Oxford English Dictionary or American Heritage Collegiate Dictionary). Obtain and use a print dictionary - I suppose in ten years or so, on-line dictionaries will be better, but then you will have to pay to use them anyway, so, BUY A PRINT DICTIONARY NOW.
