3rd/4th Word of the Week: Spectator

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Spectator:

noun

1. a person who watches at a show, game, or other event.

   "around fifteen thousand spectators came to watch the thrills and spills"

Latin root:  spect: to look

Related words:  inspect, specimen, spectacle, speculate

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3rd/4th Word of the Week: Bountiful

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Bountiful:

adjective:

liberal in bestowing gifts, favors, or bounties; munificent; generous.

abundant; ample:a bountiful supply.
The harvest was bountiful this year.
From Middle English: Bounty & Ful.  Bounty is also a type of reward or something good
Related words:  Bounteous, Bounty Hunter, Abundant 

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3rd/4th Word of the Week: Ambiguous

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Ambiguous:

adjective:

• (of language) open to more than one interpretation; 
• having a double meaning.
• "ambiguous phrases"

• unclear or inexact because a choice between alternatives has not been made.
• "the election result was ambiguous"

Latin Root:  Ambi= Both, Words with this root: Ambidextrous, Ambivalent

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3rd/4th Word of the Week: Submarine

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Submarine

Noun

1. 1.

   a warship with a streamlined hull designed to operate completely submerged in the sea for long periods, equipped with a periscope and typically armed with torpedoes or missiles.

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Adjective

1. existing, occurring, or used under the surface of the sea.

   "submarine volcanic activity"

Latin Root:  Sub=Under or Below

Old French: Marin=of the Sea, Maritime