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Azealia Banks demonstrates as good an example of the word ‘insult’ as one could hope to avoid. Insult “The ‘sult’ of insult comes from a word that meant jump. Its source was Latin insultare ...

“In Roman times, slaves were used to mine salt. It was not a pleasant chore. But today, in the Ukraine, some people willingly spend several hours a day in a salt mine. They are not there, though, to mine salt. They ...

The original sense of the word ‘genius’ references ‘birth’ and ‘generation,’ and seems to suggest that ‘genius,’ which is to say, as defined today, an ‘individual of ...

Oak “Oak is an ancient Germanic tree-name, shared by German eiche, Dutch eik, Swedish ek, and Danish eg. These point back to a common Germanic ancestor *aiks. There is no conclusive evidence of any related forms ...

We typically expect big visible opportunities, but turn arounds only appear to happen instantaneously.