Freeman & Freeman Applications p. 128, # 3

1. brazen - O.E. bræsen "of brass," from bræs "brass" + see -en (2). The figurative sense of "hardened in effrontery" is 1570s (in brazen-face), perhaps suggesting a face unable to show shame (see brass). To brazen it out "face impudently" is from 1550s.

Origin of BRAZEN Middle English brasen, from Old English bræsen, from bræsbrass

First Known Use: before 12th century

2. furniture

1520s, "act of furnishing," from M.Fr. fourniture, from fournir "furnish" (see furnish). Sense of "chairs, tables, etc.; household stuff" (1570s) is unique to English; most other European languages derive their words for this from L. mobile "movable."

Origin of FURNITURE Middle French fourniture, from fournir

First Known Use: 1542

3. tobacco

1580s, from Sp. tabaco, in part from an Arawakan (probably Taino) language of the Caribbean, said to mean "a roll of tobacco leaves" (according to Las Casas, 1552) or "a kind of pipe for smoking tobacco" (according to Oviedo, 1535). Scholars of Caribbean languages lean toward Las Casas' explanation. But Sp. tabaco (also It. tabacco) was a name of medicinal herbs from early 15c., from Arabic tabbaq, attested since 9c. as the name of various herbs. So the word may be a European one transferred to an American plant. Cultivation in France began 1556 with an importation of seed by Andre Thevet; introduced in Spain 1558 by Francisco Fernandes.

Origin of TOBACCO Spanish tabaco, probably from Taino, roll of tobacco leaves

First Known Use: circa 1565

4. comfort c.1200, "feeling of relief" (as still in to take comfort in something); also "source of alleviation or relief;" from French (see comfort (v.)). Replaced O.E. frofor. Comforts (as opposed to necessities and luxuries) is from 1650s.

Origin of COMFORT Middle English, from Anglo-French cunforter, comforter,from Late Latin confortare to strengthen greatly, from Latincom- + fortis strong

First Known Use: 13th century

5. pulverize late 15c. (implied in pp. pulverizate), from L.L. pulverizare "reduce to powder or dust," from L. pulvis (gen. pulveris) "dust" (see pollen). Related: Pulverized; pulverizing.

Origin of PULVERIZE

Middle English, from Late Latin pulverizare, from Latinpulver-, pulvis dust, powder

First Known Use: 15th century

6. fashionista by 1996, from fashion + -ista (see -ist). In the same sense were fashionist (1610s, alive as late as 1850); fashion-monger (1590s); fashion-fly (1868).

Origin of FASHIONISTA

1fashion + -ista (as in Sandinista)

First Known Use: 1993

7. widget "gadget, small manufactured item," c.1920, Amer.Eng., probably an alteration of gadget, perhaps based on which it.

Origin of WIDGET

alteration of gadget

First Known Use: 1926

8. sleaze "condition of squalor," by 1967, back formation from sleazy. Meaning "person of low moral standards," and the adjective use, are attested from 1976. Sleazy - 1640s, "hairy, fuzzy," later "flimsy, unsubstantial" (1660s), of unknown origin; one theory traces it somehow to Silesian "of the eastern German province of Silesia" (Ger. Schlesien), where fine linen or cotton fabric was made (Silesia in ref. to cloth is attested in English from 1670s; and sleazy as an abbreviated form is attested from 1670), but OED is against this. Sense of "sordid" is from 1941.

Origin of SLEAZE

back-formation from sleazy

First Known Use: 1954

Origin of SLEAZY

origin unknown

First Known Use: circa 1645

9. perdition mid-14c., "fact of being lost or destroyed," from O.Fr. perdiciun (11c.), from L.L. perditionem (nom. perditio) "ruin, destruction," from L. perditus, pp. of perdere "do away with, destroy, lose, throw away," from per- "through" (here perhaps with intensive or completive force, "to destruction") + -dare "to put" (see date (1)). Special theological sense of "condition of damnation, spiritual ruin, state of souls in Hell" (late 14c.) has gradually extinguished the general use of the word.

Origin of PERDITION

Middle English perdicion, from Anglo-French perdiciun, Late Latin perdition-, perditio, from Latin perdere to destroy, from per- through + dare to give — more at PER-, DATE

First Known Use: 14th century

10. besmirch 1590s, from be- + smirch.

Our Gayness and our Gilt are all besmyrcht. ["Henry V," IV.iii.110]

First Known Use of BESMIRCH

1599

Origin:

1590–1600; be- + smirch

Sources

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php

http://www.learn-english-today.com/New-words/new-words-in-english.html

http://www.merriam-webster.com/

http://www.pathguy.com/shakeswo.htm