Gregarious - "fond of the company of others; sociable; extroverted" OR "living in flocks or herds, as animals do." From the Latin adjective
gregarius, a, um meaning "belonging to a flock," which comes from the Latin noun
grex, gregis meaning "flock (of sheep or birds, etc.)." (All information is from
www.wikipedia.org,
www.etymonline.com and/or
www.dictionary.com).
RELATED WORDS/PHRASES –
congregation (as in "the flock"), egregious (from ex grege, meaning "out of the flock" or "rising above the flock"), segregate (to separate from the flock), aggregate (bring together in a flock), and so on.
Sample sentence – “Ian is always the life of the party and he can hold a conversation with anyone - he is so gregarious!"
ABBREVIATION OF THE WEEK: I.E. (ID EST) -
id est means "that is (to say)" or "in other words" and is used to explain something further.
Id is a neuter nominative singular personal (actually demonstrative) pronoun and
est is a 3rd person singular present tense linking verb meaning "is."
GUESS THE APHORISM OF THE WEEK: Too many cooks...
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...spoil the soup.