Thursday, May 21, 2020

May A-Z Challenge: A Pair of Favourite English Words [S]

Blog entry #47

Svelte | Subsume


Svelte 
No, I’m not talking about the new, blazingly fast JavaScript framework, which is apparently better than both React and Vue, but rather the word referring to a slender and elegant person. Saying this word out loud evokes the sensation of a swan-like personality within you. It is synonymous with yet another lovely word - suave. What a coincidence of both words having a 'v' in them. Perhaps that’s what makes the words so fun to say! 

Subsume
It was wrong of me to assume this word was related to presume 
Whereas it is, in fact, a synonym of insume 
It means to include or absorb in something else 
Basically be consumed by something other than itself! 

First came across it in a technical document 
Almost got into a misunderstood argument 
In the end, it was all swell 
It’s now my favourite word, just as well 

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