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A word that doesn't mean what I thought it meant. (I thought it meant contentedly calm and relaxed.)
sanguine - (adj.) cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident.
As long as I consider that the word etymology is based on blood / redness, I should be able to remember that it doesn't mean calmness. But when I think of being red in the face, I think of rage (the opposite of calm contentedness), not cheerfulness, which is why I probably have a hard time remembering the correct meaning.
livid - ((adj.) enraged; furiously angry) is another word like that, the definition of which I generally do get right. It can also mean "reddish or flushed". Yet the first definition is "having a discolored, bluish appearance caused by a bruise", and I don't associate blue-ness with rage.
sanguine - (adj.) cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident.
As long as I consider that the word etymology is based on blood / redness, I should be able to remember that it doesn't mean calmness. But when I think of being red in the face, I think of rage (the opposite of calm contentedness), not cheerfulness, which is why I probably have a hard time remembering the correct meaning.
livid - ((adj.) enraged; furiously angry) is another word like that, the definition of which I generally do get right. It can also mean "reddish or flushed". Yet the first definition is "having a discolored, bluish appearance caused by a bruise", and I don't associate blue-ness with rage.