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jubilation
[ joo-buh-ley-shuhn ]
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noun
a feeling of or the expression of joy or exultation.
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- First recorded around 1350鈥�1400.
- Comes from the Middle English word jubilacioun, which comes from the Latin word 箩奴产颈濒腻迟颈艒苍-, “a shouting for joy.”
- The verb jubilate, “to show or feel great joy,” also comes from the same Latin stem.
EXAMPLES OF JUBILATION
- It was wonderful to witness their jubilation as they crossed the finish line.
- There was an atmosphere of聽jubilation and excitement at the grand opening ceremony.
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bedizen
[ bih-dahy-zuhn ]
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verb
to dress or adorn in a showy, gaudy, or tasteless manner.
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- First recorded in 1655鈥�65.
- Formed from the verb dizen, “to deck with clothes or finery.”
- Dizen was originally a weaving term that refers to a bunch of wool fiber on a distaff, a spinning wheel attachment.
EXAMPLES OF BEDIZEN
- The attendees had bedizened themselves for the midnight release of the new fantasy film.
- The children loved to use their parents’ old costume jewelry to bedizen themselves.
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malamute
[ mal-uh-myoot ]
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noun
one of an Alaskan breed of large dogs having a dense, coarse coat, raised originally by the Inuit for drawing sleds.
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- First recorded in 1895鈥�1900.
- Sometimes capitalized, malamute is from the Inupiaq word malimiut.
- Malimiut is a name for the local groups of Inupiaq peoples of the Kotzebue Sound region in what is now Western Alaska, who bred such dogs.
EXAMPLES OF MALAMUTE
- The dog was a beautiful mix of German Shepherd, Siberian Husky, and Alaskan Malamute.
- Bursting through the screen door, the malamute sprinted to greet us as we came up the walkway.
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