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The Academic Word List (AWL) is a word list of 570 English word families [1] which appear with great frequency in a broad range of academic texts. The target readership is English as a second or foreign language students intending to enter English-medium higher education , and teachers of such students.
The alternative word fall for the season traces its origins to old Germanic languages. The exact derivation is unclear, with the Old English fiæll or feallan and the Old Norse fall all being possible candidates. However, these words all have the meaning "to fall from a height" and are clearly derived either from a common root or from each other.
The Farmer's Almanac states the word equinox "comes from the Latin words for 'equal night' — aequus (equal) and nox (night). On the equinox, the length of day and night is nearly equal in all ...
The first day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere is marked by the winter solstice, which is expected to arrive at 3:19 a.m. CT December 21 in 2024, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.
And it looks like crisp and cool weather (accompanied by some rainy days) is ahead. The beginning of October is expected to get off to a chilly start for some areas of the U.S., but it will also ...
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The first day of fall this year, also known as the autumnal equinox is Sunday, Sept. 22. According to the Farmer's Almanac, the exact time of the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere is 8: ...
Word has a variety of meanings, and our understand of ideas such as vocabulary size differ depending on the definition used. The most common definition equates words with lemmas (the inflected or dictionary form; this includes walk, but not walks, walked or walking). Most of the time lemmas do not include proper nouns (names of people, places ...