Word of the day: Surmise / Interesting Facts About English

Word of the day

Surmise: conjetura, suposição, imaginação, cismo, suspeita, imaginar, supor, conjeturar, suspeitar

Synonyms:  guess, shot, supposition, conjecture

“My surmise is that the couple's “good news” is the announcement that they are going to have a baby.”

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Interesting Facts About English

The only planet not named after a god is our own, Earth.. The others are, in order from the Sun, Mercury, Venus, [Earth,] Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

The longest English word without a true vowel (a, e, i, o or u) is "rhythm"

There are only 4 English words in common use ending in "-dous": hazardous, horrendous, stupendous, and tremendous.

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