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作者: qingchengshan 时间: 2016-4-26 08:00 标题: 2016-04-25 How to Use a Word
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作者: cristianjey 时间: 2016-4-27 12:37 标题: [Homework]2016-04-25 How to Use a Word
Today's word is juxtapose, spelled J-U-X-T-A-P-O-S-E.
Juxtapose is a verb that means to place side by side as to compare or contrast. Here is the word used in a sentence from The LA Times by Carolina Miranda.
ESPN posted an image of poverty outside Havana's sports stadium last week, to juxtapose the well-kept stadium with the shabby neighborhood around it.
A back-formation is a word that has come about through the removal of a prefix or a suffix from a longer word. Etymologists think juxtapose is a back-formation that was created when people trimmed down the noun juxtaposition. Historical evidence supports the idea: juxtaposition was showing up in English documents as early as 1654, but juxtapose didn't appear until 1851. Juxtaposition is itself thought to be a combination of the Latin word juxta, meaning near, and the English word position.
I'm Peter Sokolowski with your Word of the Day.
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