tele-:far
→telephone: a device for speaking to someone in another place by means of electrical signals
→telecast: a programme that is broadcast on television
→telecommunication: communication using phones, radios, etc.
ac-:accept, take it for granted
→acquire: to get something
→acknowledge: to accept, admit, or recognize something, or the truth or existence of something
→accede: to agree to do what people have asked you to do
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President-elect of the United States
The President-elect of the United States is the apparent winner, as ascertained by the General Services Administration Administrator, following the general election on Election Day in November, and the finalized winner when the votes cast in December by the Electoral College are counted by a joint session of Congress in early January.
During the period between the presidential election and the inauguration, the outgoing president is said to be a lame duck, while the incoming president heads a presidential transition to ensure a smooth handover of power.
An incumbent president who has won re-election, is generally not referred to as a president-elect, as he or she is already in office and is not waiting to become president. Likewise, if a Vice President succeeds to the Presidency by way of the President's death, resignation or removal (via impeachment) from office, that person never holds the title of President-elect, as they would become President immediately.
The current President-elect is businessman Donald Trump of the Republican Party. Trump won the 2016 presidential election, and will be inaugurated as President of the United States on January 20, 2017.
Vocabulary
"delusions of greatness," 1866, from French mégalomanie; see megalo- + mania "madness."
⇨exonerate (v.)
mid-15c., from Latin exoneratus, past participle of exonerare "remove a burden, discharge, unload," from ex "out, out of, off" (see ex-) + onerare "to unload; overload, oppress," from onus (genitive oneris) "burden" (see onus). Related: Exonerated; exonerating.
⇨dismantle (v.)
1570s, from Middle French desmanteler "to tear down the walls of a fortress," literally "strip of a cloak," from des- "off, away" (see dis-) + manteler "to cloak" (see mantle). Related: Dismantled; dismantling.
⇨balk (v.)
late 14c., "to leave an unplowed ridge when plowing," from balk (n.). Extended meaning "to omit, intentionally neglect" is mid-15c. Most modern senses are figurative, from the notion of a balk in the fields as a hindrance or obstruction: sense of "stop short" (as a horse confronted with an obstacle) is late 15c.; that of "to refuse" is 1580s. Related: Balked; balking.
⇨nebulous (adj.)
late 14c., "cloudy, misty," from Latin nebulosus "cloudy, misty, foggy, full of vapor," from nebula (see nebula). The figurative sense of "hazy, vague, formless" is first attested 1831. Astronomical sense is from 1670s. Related: Nebulously; nebulousness.
⇨abstemious (adj.)
"sparing or moderate in eating or drinking," c. 1600, from Latin abstemius "sober, temperate, abstaining from wine," from assimilated form of ab "off, away from" (see ab-) + stem of temetum "strong drink," which is related to temulentus "drunken." Etymologically it refers only to abstaining from alcoholic drink, but it was extended in Latin to temperance in living generally. Related: Abstemiously; abstemiousness.
⇨sultry (adj.)
1590s, "oppressively hot, close and moist" (of weather), ultimately from swelter + alteration of -y (2), either as a contraction of sweltry or from obsolete verb sulter "to swelter" (1580s), alteration of swelter. Figurative sense of "hot with lust" is attested from 1704; of women, "lascivious, sensual, arousing desire" it is recorded from 1940. Related: Sultriness.
⇨opulence (n.)
c. 1510, from Middle French opulence (16c.), from Latin opulentia, from opulentus "wealthy," dissimilated from *op-en-ent-, related to ops "wealth, power, resources," opus "work, labor, exertion," from PIE root *op- (1) "to work, produce in abundance" (see opus).
⇨ascetic (n.)
"one of the early Christians who retired to the desert to live solitary lives of meditation and prayer," 1670s, from ascetic (adj.).
⇨nurture (v.)
"to feed or nourish," early 15c., from nurture (n.). Related: Nurtured; nurturing.
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