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entelechy
noun
a realization or actuality as opposed to a potentiality
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- First recorded in 1595–1605.
- From the Greek entelécheia, a word coined by Aristotle.
- Combines en-³, meaning “in,” + Greek télos, meaning “goal,” + Greek écheia, meaning “to have.”
EXAMPLES OF ENTELECHY
- The community center was the entelechy of decades of fundraising and planning.
- The entelechy of art is about bringing imagination to life through creation.
onerous
adjective
burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship
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- First recorded between 1350–1400.
- From the Latin root onus, meaning “burden,” from which we also get the English onus.
EXAMPLES OF ONEROUS
- The tennis player found the contract too onerous, so she refused to sign it.
- The hike became more onerous as the trail became muddier in the rain.
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- First recorded between 1375–1425 as a now-archaic adjective meaning “public.”
- From the Latin dīvulgātus; related to the word divulge.
EXAMPLES OF DIVULGATE
- The whistleblower chose to divulgate the evidence despite potential repercussions.
- The first three chapters of the author’s upcoming novel were accidentally divulgated to the public.
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