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		dmitriid on Oct 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Replace the “very” in your sentence To my non-native ear it sounds/looks like a word that means anything but beautiful. Basically, what does horgous look like https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cogs.12791

marginalia_nu on Oct 14, 2022 [–]

A lot of basic first-250-words-of-latin vocabulary has become pretentious English words for some reason.

Pulchritudinous [ pulchre = beautiful ]

Virile [vir = man]

Tacit [tacite = quietly]

Ossify [os = bone]

Stultify [stultus = dumb]

Puerile [puer = boy]

Amicable [amice = friendly]

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