Vocabulary Corner : wastrel PRONUNCIATION: (WAY-struhl) - TopicsExpress



          

Vocabulary Corner : wastrel PRONUNCIATION: (WAY-struhl) MEANING: noun: A good-for-nothing, wasteful person. ETYMOLOGY: Via French from Latin vastare (to lay waste), from vastus (desert, empty) + -rel (a diminutive or pejorative suffix). Earliest documented use: 1589. USAGE: With Greece at the center of a cyclone that threatens the global economy, foreign citizens believe that their taxes have been raised to bail out the wastrel Greeks. Nikos Konstandaras; Orwells Elephant; Kathimerini (Athens, Greece); Oct 3, 2011.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 08:10:25 +0000

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