Etymology Project
Facile
Origin
Definition
1. Moving, working, acting, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality
2. Easily done, performed, used etc.
3. Easy or unconstrained, as manners or persons
4. Affable, agreeable, or complaisant; easily influenced
My Definition:
~Doing something without difficulty; easygoing
Other Forms
~None
Suffixes:
~None
Parts of Speech:
~Facile-adjective
~Facilely-adverb
~Facileness-noun
Roots:
~None
Synonyms
~uncomplicated
~practiced
Pronounciation
Sentences
2. He found basketball to be facile, while other people had a hard time he did everything with ease.
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Immigrate
Origin
Definitions
1. To come to a country of which one is not a native, usually for permanent residence
2. To pass or come into a new habitat or place, as an organism
3. To introduce as settlers
My Definition:
~To come to a new area or country, usually as a permanent location
Other Forms
~Im-in, into
Suffixes:
~Ate-state or quality of
Parts of Speech:
~Immigrate-verb
~Immigrator-noun
Roots:
~None
Synonyms
~colonize
~settle
Pronounciation
Sentences
2. Lots of people have immigrated to America from other parts of the world over time.
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Archetype
Origin
Definitions
1. The original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype
2. A collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, etc., universally present in individual psyches
My Definition:
~The original pattern which you use to make something; what you copy to make more of something
Other Forms
~None
Suffixes:
~None
Parts of Speech:
~Archetype-noun
~Archetypal-adjective
~Archetypally-adverb
Roots:
~None
Synonyms
~original
~prototype
Pronounciation
Sentences
2. The teacher showed her students an example from last year as an archetype.
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Malleable
Origin
Definitions
1. Capable of being extended or shaped by hammering or by pressure from rollers
2. Adaptable or tractable
My Definition:
~Able to be molded into a new shape
Other Forms
~None
Suffixes:
~Able-capable of
Parts of Speech:
~Malleable-adjective
~Malleably-adverb
~Malleability-noun
Roots:
~None
Synonyms
~ductile
~transformable
Pronounciation
Sentences
2. People can make metal more malleable and then bend it into the shape they want.