Youth Voices Magazine

30/10/2025

English speakers adopted truculent from Latin in the mid-16th century, trimming truculentus, a form of the Latin adjective trux, meaning 'savage,' and keeping the word’s meaning. Apparently in need of

30/10/2025

29/10/2025

Deliquesce comes from the prefix de- ('from, down, away') and a form of the Latin verb liquēre, meaning 'to be fluid.' Things that deliquesce, it could be said, turn to mush in more ways than one. In

28/10/2025

Back in the days of Middle French, ménagerie meant 'the management of a household or farm' or 'a place where animals are tended.' When English speakers adopted menagerie in the 1600s, they applied it

27/10/2025

English speakers created acerbic in the 19th century by combining the adjective acerb with the suffix -ic-. Acerb had already been around for a couple centuries, but for most of that time it had been