This week’s theme
Words that appear to be coined after someone (but aren’t)

This week’s words
ruminate
bushwa
obambulate
trumpery
hilarity

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PRONUNCIATION:

(hi-LAYR-i-tee)

MEANING:

noun: Cheerfulness; merriment.

ETYMOLOGY:

From French hilarité (hilarity), from Latin hilaris (cheerful), from Greek hilaros (cheerful). Earliest documented use: 1568.

USAGE:

“A merry school of porpoises, a square mile of them, suddenly appear, tossing themselves into the air in abounding strength and hilarity.”
John Muir; Travels in Alaska; Houghton Mifflin; 1915.

See more usage examples of hilarity in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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