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Gaffe
is an SAT word you need to know.
So is obfuscate. Does it mean:
| relating to money |
| make obscure or unclear |
Example Sentences
- The gaffe caused a six-day delay in election results, but wasn't insurmountable.
- Nor is it the first gaffe to strike the current campaign.
- Not so much a gaffe as a simply horrible, uninspiring design.
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Word Origin & History
gaffe
"blunder," 1909, perhaps from Fr. gaffe "clumsy remark," originally "boat hook," from O.Fr. gaffe, from O.Prov. gaf, probably from W.Goth. *gafa "hook," from P.Gmc. *gafa. Sense connection is obscure. The gaff was also used to land big fish. Or it may derive from Brit. slang gaff "to cheat, trick" (1893);
EXPANDor gaff "criticism" (1896), from Scot. dial. sense of "loud, rude talk," which ultimately may be from O.E. gaf-spræc "blasphemous or ribald speech."
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