Showing posts with label repatriate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label repatriate. Show all posts

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Word-Recap

So, we have learned four words this week.

They are: froth, muddle, repatriate, and exuberant.

Froth means bubbles. Mass of bubbles. Usually created by a melange of warm water and soap in a bath tub. Can also be found on top of a beer in a glass. Frothing can be considered as a verb, similar as bubbling. But frothing works in a sweeping manner. Consider while walking near a beach, where sea would sweep you endlessly. You can say the sea froths you as well, as bubbles are usually formed as a result of it.

Muddle can mean a lot of things. It can be used to represent a state of confusion. Or if combined with through, as in muddle through, can represent the meaning of battling through and succeed. He muddles through the players to get a touchdown. Everything is in a muddle, we need to fix this mess now!

Repatriate means send something back to its origin. French gov seeks to repatriate thousands of Algerian refugees. As you can see, you don't need to mention "back" or where to. Though you can I believe. A repatriate is a person that is sent back home to his or her original place.

Exuberant. Overwhelming! Plentiful! Overflowing! It just shows. The excitement, the energetic radiance. It's bouncy! In fact, this paragraph is littered with exclamation marks to describe the meaning of the word exuberance itself! Exuberant crowd, exuberant cheerfulness, exude exuberance (excitement etc.). The grapes plant has grown exuberantly, covering the six feet fence in just one week!

Friday, October 28, 2011

Word-a-day: Repatriate


Repatriate.
What does it mean?
It means sending or bringing back something to original country. That something can be a person or even money.

For example, The French government seeks to repatriate Algerian refugees this year. As you can see, no need to mention back or their country. We know where they are from from the adjective of Algerian.

Similarly, the foreign companies decide to repatriate their investments amidst the financial crisis.

Repatriate can also represent a person (a noun). Perhaps a refugee.

Words that have the same definition as repatriate?
Extradite or deport in a way that it shares the definition of trying to send back someone against that person's will.