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• Logistics
  ...ancial]] organization. The word logistics has its [[origin]] in the French verb ''loger'' to lodge or to quarter. Its original use was to describe the [[sc
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• Eavesdrop
  The verb ''eavesdrop'' was originally a back-formation of the noun eavesdropper ("a
  2 KB (334 words) - 22:00, 19 January 2016
• Hypocrisy
  ...ποκρίνομαι (hypokrinomai), i.e., "I [[play]] a part". Both derive from the verb κρίνω, "[[judge]]" (»κρίση, "[[judgement]]" »κριτική (kr ...[[word]] is an amalgam of the Greek prefix hypo-, meaning "under", and the verb krinein, meaning "to sift or decide". Thus the original meaning implied a d
  5 KB (678 words) - 23:54, 12 December 2020
• Lust
  ...ion) and luxuria ([[luxury]]). However, the northern European usage of the verb still meant simply "to please, delight;" or "[[pleasure]]". A related form
  2 KB (313 words) - 01:20, 13 December 2020
• Wish
  :transitive verb :intransitive verb
  6 KB (960 words) - 02:41, 13 December 2020
• Phenomenon
  ...n φαινόμενον, (''phainomenon, df. appearance''), it is also related to the verb - φαινειν ''phainein, df. to show''.
  3 KB (432 words) - 02:19, 11 January 2009
• Subordinate
  :''Transitive verb''
  2 KB (333 words) - 02:11, 13 December 2020
• Scourge
  ...ddle English]: shortening of Old French ''escorge'' (noun), ''escorgier'' (verb), from [[Latin]] ex- ‘thoroughly’ + corrigia ‘thong, whip.’
  2 KB (309 words) - 02:29, 13 December 2020
• Rapport
  It stems from an old French verb ''rapporter'' which means [[literally]] to carry something back; and in the
  2 KB (279 words) - 02:32, 13 December 2020
• Massacre
  ..._massacre St. Bartholomew's Day massacre]). Massacre can also be used as a verb, as "To kill (people or, less commonly, [[animals]]) in numbers, esp. bruta
  2 KB (287 words) - 01:22, 13 December 2020
• Bargain
  ...IOD Middle English]: from Old French ''bargaine'' (noun), ''bargaignier'' (verb); probably of Germanic [[origin]] and related to German ''borgen'' ‘''bor
  2 KB (310 words) - 00:02, 13 December 2020
• Control
  intransitive verb
  2 KB (315 words) - 22:18, 12 December 2020
• Archon
  ...cific [[public]] office. It is the [[masculine]] present participle of the verb stem αρχ-, meaning "to rule", derived from the same root as [[monarch]]
  2 KB (327 words) - 23:45, 12 December 2020
• Verbosity
  ...n]] ''verbosus'', from ''verbum'' (see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb Verb])
  3 KB (394 words) - 02:42, 13 December 2020
• Massage
  ...r handle" or from [[Latin]] ''massa'' meaning "mass, dough", cf. [[Greek]] verb μάσσω (''massō'') "to handle, [[touch]], to [[work]] with the hands,
  2 KB (310 words) - 01:24, 13 December 2020
• Physician
  ...drugs or medications (as opposed to surgery), and was later used both as a verb and also to describe the medications themselves. ...oris) means [[teacher]] in [[Latin]] and is an agent noun derived from the verb docere ('teach'). A cognate [[expression]] occurs in French as docteur mé
  5 KB (742 words) - 02:14, 13 December 2020
• Song
  ...Sonata sonata]...)." The word "song" has the same etymological root as the verb "to sing" and the [[OED]] defines the word to mean "that which is sung". Co
  2 KB (359 words) - 02:37, 13 December 2020
• Trophy
  ...of a [[change]]", from τροπή (tropē), "a turn, a change" and that from the verb τρέπω (trepo), "to turn, to alter".
  2 KB (347 words) - 02:44, 13 December 2020
• Sigh
  ...e=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] (as a verb): probably a back-formation from ''sighte'', past tense of ''siche'', ''sik
  2 KB (367 words) - 02:32, 13 December 2020
• Variance
  ...glish]: via Old French from Latin ''variantia'' ‘[[difference]],’ from the verb ''variare''
  3 KB (382 words) - 02:41, 13 December 2020

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