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matzo
noun
unleavened bread in the form of large crackers, typically square and corrugated, eaten during Passover.
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Most Americans are familiar with matzo 鈥渦nleavened bread in the form of large crackers,鈥� because food stores routinely stock matzo on their shelves, especially just before Passover, which occurs in the early spring. Matzo comes via Yiddish matse (plural matses) from Hebrew 尘补峁ａ梗腻丑 (plural 尘补峁ａ梗艒迟丑). 惭补峁ａ梗腻丑 comes from a West Semitic root meaning 鈥渢o be or become sour, ferment.鈥� Matzo entered English in the mid-17th century.
how is matzo used?
Every spring, we piled into the station wagon with my dad, who drove miles in search of a grocery store that sold Passover food. In a larger town, twenty minutes away, we could usually find a few Manischewitz products on a bottom shelf鈥攁 dusty jar of borscht, a tin of macaroons, a box of matzo. That orange-and-green logo was a beacon.
At its most traditional, matzo is made from just flour and water. But adding a little salt for flavor and olive oil for richness yields an airy, tender matzo that鈥檚 easy to make.
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fustigate
verb (used with object)
to criticize harshly; castigate.
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The English verb fustigate, 鈥渢o criticize harshly; scold severely,鈥� comes from Late Latin 蹿耻蝉迟墨驳腻迟耻蝉, the past participle of the verb 蹿耻蝉迟墨驳腻谤别 鈥渢o beat to death with a cudgel.鈥� 贵耻蝉迟墨驳腻谤别 is a compound of the noun fustis “a stick, club, cudgel鈥� and the combining form –颈驳腻谤别, a derivative of the simple, much overworked Latin verb agere 鈥渢o do, act.鈥� The same combining form appears in l墨t颈驳腻谤别 鈥渢o go to law,鈥� source of English litigate and litigation; f奴m颈驳腻谤别 鈥渢o smoke,鈥� source of English fumigate and fumigation; and n膩v颈驳腻谤别 鈥渢o travel by ship, sail,鈥� English navigate and navigation. Fustigate entered English in the mid-17th century.
how is fustigate used?
He fustigates them energetically a few years later for their political affiliations, their efforts to bring about a social revolution, their commitment to the physical, whereas, according to Artaud, the great revolution must be a revolution of the spirit, a metamorphosis of what he called the soul.
He fustigates only those propositions that go against the evidence in the service of an undeniable initial lie.
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concatenation
noun
a series of interconnected or interdependent things or events.
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Concatenation comes straight from the Late Latin noun 肠辞苍肠补迟脓苍腻迟颈艒 (stem 肠辞苍肠补迟脓苍腻迟颈艒n-) 鈥渃onnection, sequence鈥� (literally 鈥渃haining together鈥�), a derivation of 肠补迟脓苍补 鈥渃hain.鈥� The Italian and Spanish words for 鈥渃hain鈥� (catena and cadena, respectively) far more closely resemble the Latin original than does the modern French 肠丑补卯苍别 (the English source for 鈥渃hain鈥�), which passed through the stages chaeine (Old French), from caeine (Old North French), from Latin 肠补迟脓苍补. Concatenation entered English in the early 17th century.
how is concatenation used?
It took an amazing concatenation of circumstances, from Lyndon Johnson鈥檚 withdrawal to Rockefeller鈥檚 tergiversations to Humphrey鈥檚 disaster at the hands of the left in Chicago, to make him President.
Before the huge Saturn 1B rocket thundered off its launch pad, the effort had been plagued by an extraordinary concatenation of weather delays, electronic gremlins and other obstacles.
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