VOCABULARY
1. 1000 Most Common SAT Words
2. 200 SAT Words–definitions, sample sentences, & synonyms
3. 7th-8th Grade English Vocabulary
4. 9th Grade English Vocabulary
5. 10th Grade English Vocabulary
6. 11th Grade English Vocabulary
7. Arts & Letters Daily
8. Literary Terms with examples! Yay!!
9. 15 Old World Words for Duplicitous. Use them deliciously.
10. Weasel Words for old Presidents?
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ACTION WORDS
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SEAFARING, or NAUTILUS TERMS. You’ll have fun with them.
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ENGLISH PHRASES, OR IDIOMS [use English.stackexchange.com to search for phrases]
“Dead to rights” means completely, or to one’s satisfaction. Comes from the phrase, “Catch someone dead to rights.”
W.S. Farmer & J.L. Henley, Slang and Its Analogues, vol. 2 (1891), says that “dead to rights” means “certain; without doubt,” and asserts that it is simply an amplification of the earlier term “to rights,” meaning “completely to one’s satisfaction.” Dead appears in a similarly amplifying way in such current phrases as “dead broke,” “dead certainty,” “dead heat,” and “dead ringer.”
In both cases, the first word means exactly (as in “That’s dead right!”, “That’s bang on!”), and the to rights component means completely. Because it often appears as catch/have someone dead to rights (have enough proof to show that someone has done something wrong), it’s often assumed there’s a connection with legal rights, but I’m skeptical of that
ETYMOLOGY [use https://www.etymonline.com/]
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