Melancholy (n): deep and long lasting sadness Melancholic (adj): sad or depressed This word is derived from the Greek root “melas” which means “black” and “kholia” which means "bile". The Greeks believed that four fluids (or humors) (blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm) controlled th...

All these aforementioned words are derived from the Latin root “annus” which means “year”. Millennium (N): This word can be split ups as “mille” meaning “thousand” and “annus” meaning “year”. Thus a year that comes after thousand years is a millennium. Some more familiar cognates of the root “milli”...

Malleable (adj): able to be hammered or shaped without cracking or breaking, easily influenced, flexible, liable to change. This word is very common to mechanical engineers jargon but the word can be used in a secondary sense also, which is: easily influenced. The word comes from the Latin root ¡§ma...

Plenary (Adj): complete, full. This word is derived form the Latin root “plenus” which means “full”. Contextual example: After receiving plenary power to rule the country, predictably the dictator started to use it in his favor. Antonyms: partial Replenish (V): fill up again. This word can be split ...

Amble (N and V): moving at an easy pace. The word amble comes from the root “ambulare”, which means, "to walk”. Contextual example: Soon the trekkers came to know that they had to stop ambling in order to reach their destination before night. Somnambulist (N): a person who walks in his sleep or...

Immutable, mutability, transmute: Well people do you remember a series of comics by the name “teenage mutant ninja turtles”? It was about 4 turtles fighting against evil; I think it was because of some chemical accident that these turtles mutate into giant anthropomorphic turtles. Anyways today they...

Aplomb (N): poise, assurance Synonyms: Self-confidence, calmness, equanimity, sang-froid Contextual Example: It was evident that the aplomb with which he was facing the situation was merely a façade and actually he himself was completely shocked by seeing the gruesome situation. Well this word has s...

All (Pan) of these words come from the root “pan”, which means “all:. · Panegyric (N): Formal praise. Synonyms: accolade, acclamation, eulogy, encomium, commmendation.laudation, plaudit, tribute, homage etc. Pan + “aguris” (assembly or marketplace). The word comes from the idea of a speech at a publ...

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Nice explanations, but it seems that you have left nothing for us to add. I now just errare erratically now. Well I have a doubt, as I said in the above post "errare" comes from "iterare" and "iter" means "journey".My question is that are these "iter&quo...

Errant (Adj): wandering “Errer” means “to travel about”, it is derived from “iterare”, which comes form Latin “iter” which means a journey (People reminisce the words itinerary, itinerant). Synonyms: 1) itinerant, peripatetic, roaming, wandering 2) Mischievous, misbehaving, delinquent Example: The e...