Definitions
Etymologies
- ad- + mix (Wiktionary)
- Back-formation from obsolete admixt, mixed into, from Middle English, from Latin admixtus, past participle of admiscēre, to mix into : ad-, ad- + miscēre, to mix; see meik- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But then you realize that you're made of frozen sand, mostly, with an admix of lunar regolith for footing.”
“And our tax money was stolen too by Bechtel and Halliburton and a handful of corporations that were awarded no-bid contracts in Iraq from an admix that has taken very good care of its friends and supporters while it has failed to protect the most needy among us.”
The Huffington Post: Jamie Court: Elizabeth Edwards: "With Less Armor Than I Have, They Fight Too."
“That would be the admix of ethnicity and culture that ties Jews historically to the Middle East, irrespective of religious belief.”
“In our Baja Sur location our choices were limited to a few basic, not very attractive colors of admix (integral) powders from the paint store.”
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“Kothian culture and religion had suffered from a subtle admix ture of Shemite and Stygian strains.”
“Of the many drugs that it has been suggested to admix in soap for use in allaying an irritable condition of the skin, the majority are obviously better applied in the form of ointments, and we need not consider them further.”
“As a rule we use water to which we admix an anticorrosion agent, fungicides as well as an additive to reduce the surface tension of the water.”
“The continuing attempt to admix these two opposing forces of light and darkness has led, naturally enough, to the waning twilight of the American antiwar movement.”
“Sticking up for your small town can very quickly go from not wanting to be looked down on by urbanites, to believing that cities are populated by an admix of "elitist snobs" and”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘admix’.
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WF - list of EN back-formations
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_back-formations
aborigine, accrete, acculturate, admix, admixture, adolesce, adsorb, adulate, advect, aesthete, air-condition, anticline and 212 more...
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X Marks the Spot
Words ending in "x" (except proper nouns and trademarks)
ax, ex, ox, soapbox, smallpox, six, sex, sax, rex, pressbox, climax, chickenpox and 208 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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word list
abandon, ache, augment, avow, atone, approbate, apprehend, abut, apostatize, abase, abash, abate and 155 more...
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ideas out loud
bandwagon, middle, via, web, fly, thru, safety, thor, swoosh, top, network effect, matrix and 200 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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common words
mei- root words, a changing mixture
common, communion, community, meatus, conge, permeate, irremeable, mew, molt, mutate, commute, permute and 87 more...
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These should be used more often
Beautiful words that I rarely see outside the dictionary
wanderlust, collywobbles, abattoir, abnegate, aborning, abrade, abrosia, abstruse, abulia, abutment, acatalectic, acaudate and 29 more...
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