1/11/21

quire is 24 pieces of paper. 

jackson pollack's wife was also a painter.

from 1/6/21, 1/7/21 and 1/8/21

"paradise" is from persian meaning enclosed park.

terpsichorean means related to dance.

from 1/5/21

yesterday is an adverb.

carolina is charles.

from 1/4/21

budgie is a kind of bird.

yosemite means "they are killers."

dysphemism is the opposite of a euphemism. examples of dysphemism are snail mail for postal mail or killer whale for orca.

ananym is a word written backwards.

alexander graham bell taught instructors of the deaf. his mother and wife were both deaf.

the word malapropism comes from a character in a play.

there's a famous headless statue of a winged woman (nike) called winged victory of samothrace

demonym is a word for a person from a particular place. an example is "german" for a person from germany.