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polydipsia
Pronounced: paw-lee-DIP-see-uh, noun Notes: I recognized “poly” meaning many or much, but I didn’t know the word Yesterday’s word The word garble means First usage Our word came into English in the early or middle 1400s Background / Comments I knew the first definition; the second was new to me. When the word first entered…
garble
Pronounced: GAR-bull, verb Notes: This word has a second meaning that I didn’t know Yesterday’s word The word homonymous means First usage Our word came into English in the early 1600s Background / Comments The third definition above is the one I knew. Some background: a homophone describes words of different meanings that sound the…
homonymous
Pronounced: ho-MAH-nuh-muhs, adj Notes: I knew one of the definitions Yesterday’s word The word amerce means “to punish; especially by a fine whose amounts are fixed by a court” First usage Our word came into English in the mid-1200s Background / Comments Our word started with the Old French phrase a merci (at [one’s] mercy).…
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