Many of the words that we use every day are the result of "importing" or "inventing" language to reflect changes in our culture. See if you can match the sources and definitions in Column A with the words in column B.
| Column A | Column B |
| 1 | Let's go! (from Mexican Spanish) |
______ scuttlebutt
______ gauche
______ yoga
______ vandal
______ equivocate
______ utopia
______ semester
______ magazine
______ sinister
______ auld lang syne
______ ruminate
______ ramshackle
______ mayday
______ Teflon
______ vamoose
______ volcano
______ sneeze
______ curfew
______ Ouija
______ October |
| 2 | Polytetrafluoroethylene resin (from Du Pont) |
| 3 | Awkward, tactless (from the French word for "left") |
| 4 | If you can't decide, maybe you should consult this game, whose name combines the words for "yes" in French and German. |
| 5 | From a Latin word meaning "to speak with equal voices" |
| 6 | Makes time go by faster in waiting rooms (from the Arabic khazana meaning "to store") |
| 7 | People who invaded Gaul, Spain, and North Africa in the fourth and fifth centuries and who sacked Rome in 455 |
| 8 | Hand them a tissue when this happens (from the Old English fneosan). |
| 9 | From the Icelandic ramskakkr, meaning "badly twisted" |
| 10 | This feature is earth-shattering (from the name of the Roman fire god). |
| 11 | A cask of water on an English ship; a place to hear rumors and the "real lowdown" |
| 12 | The eighth month of the old Roman calendar |
| 13 | An order announced nightly by the ringing of the village bell (from a French word meaning "to cover the fire"). |
| 14 | A body-mind discipline (from the Old English geoc and the Germanic yuk, meaning "yoking together" or "union") |
| 15 | To mull over or consider (from the Latin for "chew the cud") |
| 16 | From the French for "help me" but having nothing to do with springtime celebrations |
| 17 | The good old days (Scottish for "old long since") |
| 18 | An ideal place that means "no place" in Greek |
| 19 | From the Latin sex meaning "six," and mensis, meaning "month," but it doesn't last that long nowadays. |
| 20 | Wicked (from the Latin for "left") |
