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ineluctable
adjective
incapable of being evaded; inescapable: an ineluctable destiny.
More about ineluctable
鈥淧roteus,鈥� the third episode of Ulysses, opens with the beautiful but opaque 鈥淚neluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes.鈥� At least the word ineluctable is easy to analyze, if not the entire sentence. Ineluctable comes directly from Latin 颈苍脓濒耻肠迟腻产颈濒颈蝉 鈥渇rom which one cannot escape,鈥� which consists of the negative or privative prefix in-, roughly 鈥渘ot鈥� (from the same Proto-Indo-European source as English un-). 膾濒耻肠迟腻谤墨 is a compound verb meaning 鈥渢o force one鈥檚 way out鈥�; it is formed from the prefix 脓-, a form of the preposition and prefix ex, ex- 鈥渙ut of, from within鈥� used only before consonants, and 濒耻肠迟腻谤墨 鈥渢o wrestle鈥�; the suffix -bilis is added to verbs and denotes ability. Ineluctable entered English in the 17th century.
how is ineluctable used?
The coming of a new day brought a sharper consciousness of ineluctable reality, and with it a sense of the need of action.
My world, on the contrary, has been thrown into extreme ethical confusion by my ineluctable connection with the crimes of Tsardom, forced on me by my birth into a family belonging to the minor nobility.
More about librate
The verb librate comes from Latin 濒墨产谤腻迟耻蝉, the past participle of 濒墨产谤腻谤别 鈥渢o balance, make level,鈥� a derivative of the noun 濒墨产谤补 鈥渁 balance, a pound (weight).鈥� The further etymology of 濒墨产谤补 is difficult. It is related to Sicilian (Doric) Greek 濒墨虂迟谤补 鈥渁 silver coin, a pound (weight),鈥� also a unit of volume, e.g., English litre (via French litre from Latin). Both 濒墨虂迟谤补 and 濒墨产谤补 derive from Italic 濒墨迟丑谤腻. L墨bra becomes lira in Italian, libra in Spanish and Portuguese, French livre (both coinage and weight). The abbreviation for 濒墨产谤补 (weight) is lb.; the symbol for 濒墨产谤补 (the coinage, i.e., the pound sterling) is 拢. Librate entered English in the 17th century.
how is librate used?
Watching them to the ground, the wings of a hawk, or of the brown owl, stretch out, are drawn against the current air by a string as a paper kite, and made to flutter and librate like a kestrel over the place where the woodlark has lodged …
At this period the balance of tropic and pole librates, and the vast atmospheric tides pour their flood upon one hemisphere and their ebb upon another.
More about brio
The Italian noun brio comes from Spanish 产谤铆辞 鈥渆nergy, determination,鈥� ultimately from Celtic 产谤墨驳辞蝉 鈥渟trength鈥� (compare Middle Welsh bri 鈥渉onor, dignity,鈥� Old Irish 产谤铆驳 鈥渟trength, power鈥�). Celtic 产谤墨驳辞蝉 derives from Proto-Indo-European 驳飞谤墨驳辞蝉, a derivative of the very common and complicated Proto-Indo-European root gwer- 鈥渉eavy,鈥� which has many variations, including 驳飞别谤蓹-, 驳飞别谤蓹耻-, and 驳飞别谤墨-. From 驳飞别谤蓹- and its variants, English has 鈥済rave, gravid, gravity鈥� from Latin; the prefixes baro- 鈥渉eavy鈥� and bary- 鈥渄eep鈥� from Greek; and guru from Sanskrit. From 驳飞谤墨驳辞蝉, the same source as Celtic 产谤墨驳辞蝉, Germanic derives 办谤墨驳补锄 鈥渇ight, strife,鈥� German Krieg 鈥渨补谤.鈥� Brio entered English in the 18th century.
how is brio used?
Although Stopsack had probably never before directed such an undertaking, he performed his duties with brio, skillfully heaping verbal abuse on the manacled inmates …
Her work rustles with the premonition that she was obsolete, that her splendor and style and ferocious brio had been demoted to a kind of sparkling irrelevance.