you?ve got to use the talents you?ve been given in this life

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The words orient, orienteering and disoriented don?t appear related oriental rug

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The shoe company Nike takes its name from a Greek goddess

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A special rail ticket was called a commutation ticket

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the definition of deed is ?that which is done.?

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a trance was the state of being between life and death

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reason our ancient forbearers were panting, is because they woke up in the night from a fantastic nightmare

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at the time it was such a shocking idea to think that there might even be a new star in the sky that it got all the scientists talking

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baban evolved as a word from the sounds that babies make before they learn to talk

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the Latin word grew from a Greek word abak or abax that meant ?slab?

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the Indo-European root meant ?to cut.?

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in 1596, hors d?oeuvre was an architectural term and indicated a piece of masonry that jutted out from the rest building

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when the Norman Conquerors arrived in England with their French a paun meant ?a walker?

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an Arabic word kazana meaning to ?store up? whose sister word makazan, meaning ?storehouse?

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the Greeks called this bird phasianos thinking they came from near the River Phasis which flows into the black sea.

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from a French word meaning ?let us drink??

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One unconvincing theory is that the back and forth nature of bargaining is related to the fact that a boat carries goods to and fro.

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It?s the flatness of the thing that gives it the name

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"Trapeza" meaning "table" was once "tetra peza" meaning ?four feet.?

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