Still SPELLing - Answers1. A syntactical evaluation would focus on the arrangement of words. The root "syntax" (from Greek via Latin) means rules for arrangement of words into grammatical sentences in a language.2. Pellucid is easy to understand, clear (from Latin pellucidus, "transparent"). The students liked her because of her pellucid explanations. 3. Extrinsic means not an essential or integral part, something outside (from Latin extrinsecus, "from outside"). It’s hard to know whether most of our troubles come from extrinsic influences, or from some of our own politicians. 4. Lexicographers write books about words. (It comes from Greek lexicon, "word book," and graphos, "to write.") As one of the first lexicographers might have said, no one but a blockhead would write a dictionary, except for money. 5. To beat, trash (origin unknown, possibly from Dutch larpen, "to thrash"). In the bad old days, teachers would give poor spellers a good larruping. |
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