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  1. Actual work is the last thing you should be doing on a Friday afternoon in late June.

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  3. You probably won't be surprised by any of the words on this list. Except maybe 'jamb.' That's a strange one.

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  4. 'Tawdry' comes from 'St. Audrey's lace,' a kind of necklace once sold at the shrine of the (not particularly salacious) 7th-century saint Etheldreda.

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  5. 'Aporia': an expression of real or pretended doubt or uncertainty for rhetorical effect

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  6. Though its root words lack an 'r' in the second syllable, the 'sherbert' spelling has existed since the word first entered English.

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  9. Cat: "a domestic animal" Tree: "a thing well known" Dog: also "a domestic animal" Look, there are a lot of words and these things are written by humans.

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  10. 28 jun.

    Though a 'reckless' person might cause some kind of 'wreck,' there is no etymological connection between the words.

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  11. 28 jun.

    'Instinctive' and 'instinctual' mostly overlap in meaning and use, but 'instinctual' tends to be found more in science writing on evolutionary behaviors.

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  15. 28 jun.

    In 13th-century religious texts, 'hypocrite' was spelled 'ypocrite' and referred to someone who pretends to be pious in order to deceive others.

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  16. 27 jun.

    'Flaunt': 👋 to display ostentatiously or impudently 'Flout': 💅 to treat with contemptuous disregard Also 'flaunt,' if you flout usage advice: to treat contemptuously

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  19. 27 jun.

    📈'Socialism' has been our top search since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's primary win last night.

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