n. the willful avoidance of one’s official responsibilities . . . late 19th cent.: perhaps from French esquiver, “dodge, slink away.”... a word which serves as the OED's own little copy protection scheme.
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A ridiculous combination of words
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I'd like to imagine that several of our high school vocab words originated in this same fashion...
Most? Try *all*. How was it they never noticed that like, 8 people in the class were reading a book that didn't exist?
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