Empathy comes from the Greek empatheia, literally, passion, from empathēs emotional, from em- + pathos feelings, emotion and was first used in English in 1909 ….
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These homonyms can be confusing. Correctly, “emigrate” and “from” always go together, as do “immigrate” and “to.” To emigrate is to come from somewhere, and ….
“Oh it’s… [unintelligible] its flames… Crashing, oh! Four- or five-hundred feet into the sky and it… it’s a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. It’s smoke, ….
Allude to something by saying all but what you actually want to say. Elude evades and gets away, like a name that’s on the tip ….
BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) The plural of ellipsis is ellipses. The definition of ellipsis: marks or a mark (such as … ) indicating an ….
BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) The plural of echo is echoes or rarely echos. echo: the repetition of a sound caused by reflection of sound ….
BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) The plural of dye is dyes. dye: a soluble or insoluble coloring matter The singular of dye is dye. The ….
BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) The plural of dwarf is dwarfs or dwarves. dwarf: a small legendary manlike being who is usually misshapen and ugly ….
BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) The plural of dragonfly is dragonflies. dragonfly: any of a suborder (Anisoptera) of odonate insects that are larger and stouter ….
The intent of the idiom is to depict the secular fallen world in which we live as brutal and cannibalistic. This one makes me dog ….