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#66201 04/18/02 04:26 PM
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1. Which of these is NOT a hairstyle?
i) skinhead
ii) dreadlocks
iii) bunches
iv) hair weave

[personal note, I think I'm going with (iv), what do you think?]

2. Which of these is NOT a Janus word?
i) sanction
ii) cleave
iii) gaffe
iv) seeded

[personal note : what on earth is Janus?]


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>ii) cleave

oh boy.. better keep me away from the quiz-master if this *ain't considered a correct answer.



(Janus word = auto-antonym, antagonym, contronym; cf. enantiodromic word)

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It seems obvious that 'skinhead' is not a hair style since there is no hair *involved.

Skinhead has also become, for the less informed, a representation of specific political affiliation, which is just as foolish as equating dreadlocks with Rastafarians.


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>(Janus word = auto-antonym, antagonym, contronym; cf. enantiodromic word)

Uh.....*scratches head* Do you have a simpler explanation than all that jargon above? hahaha.....

Uh..... nevermind, I found it.

Janus word - definition :
(noun) A word having opposite or contradictory meanings, as sanction or cleave.

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A Janus word is one that has opposite or nearly opposite meanings.Cleave, for example, means to come close (cleave to one's bosom) or split apart, as in meat cleaver.


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NOT a hairstyle?

I'd have to go with i) skinhead cause, technically, it doesn't actual involve hair.

NOT a Janus word?

All I know is that ii) cleave is not one word. We've got two completely different words that just happen to be spelled the same in Modern English. They come from different IE roots and were spelled differently as recently as a thousand years ago.

Janus was a two faced Roman god. God of doorways.

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/j/janus.html


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Oooooooh! Look who just got a hundred!


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A word having opposite or contradictory meanings, as sanction or cleave.

Or seeded, which means either with seeds or having had them removed. So I guess your answer is gaffe.


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cleave is not one word.

Maybe it seems that way to the person who wrote the quiz. Or maybe they are trying to fool Jess into picking "gaffe", when they feel the answer is "cleave" (for the pedantic reason that Faldage stated above). What else can gaffe mean besides "socially awkward or tactless act" (courtesy of Webster)?


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Yes, I get what you mean, now! Seeded could mean to plant or to take out of (fruits). So I guess it IS gaffe!


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