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Apartheid
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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- The university's vice chancellor and others argue that affirmative action is still needed to fix the problems left by apartheid.
- Although he is from a distinguished Afrikaner family, he soon became a committed opponent of apartheid.
- He became prominent in the 1970s as an unrelenting critic of apartheid.
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Word Origin & History
apartheid
1947 (policy begun 1948), from Afrikaans apartheid (1929 in a S.African socio-political context), lit. "separateness," from Du. apart "separate" (from Fr. àpart; see apart) + suffix -heid, cognate of Eng. -hood. The official Eng. synonym was separate development (1955).
EXPAND" 'Segregation' is such an active word that it suggests someone is trying to segregate someone else. So the word 'apartheid' was introduced. Now it has such a stench in the nostrils of the world, they are referring to 'autogenous development.' " [Alan Paton, "New York Times," Oct. 24, 1960]
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apartheid [(uh-pahr-teyet, uh-pahr-tayt)]The racist policy (see racism) of South Africa that long denied blacks and other nonwhites civic, social, and economic equality with whites. It was dismantled during the 1990s. (See Nelson Mandela.)
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