2 August 2007

  1. Interventionist
  2. Militates
  3. incentivised
  4. volunteerism
  5. inter vivos

These are five 'new' (to me) words that I learnt on the job yesterday.

4 comments:

Shammi said...

Ah, you're learning professionalese (or businessese), I see. I'm familiar with the first 4, what's the 5th mean?

Castor aka Kiwilax said...

Shyam: means 'between people who are living'. Grand life, ain't it?

Shammi said...

Hmmm... I was wondering if it meant "bury the living" :D

Castor aka Kiwilax said...

Shyam: I think you're thinking of the English 'inter' but this is Latin, so...