THE "SECRET" LIFE OF WORDS : ANTANACLASIS

(NO connection whatsoever with Isabel Coixet´s film of the same name.Sorry, like two people with the same name and surnames)
Words, like people, have their own stories and histories. They are born, they develop, they change their meanings and eventually may become old-fashioned or even disappear or appear only on the web or some dictionaries....
I´m indebted to Henry Hitchins "The secret life of words or How English became English" who analysed the fascinating stories behind just sixteen words:

ensemble

invade

saffron

volume

bravado

genius

powwow

bonsai

onslaught

connoisseur

teapot

blizzard

ethos

voodoo

angst

shabash

 

1)FIND OUT BOTH THE ORIGIN & MEANING OF EACH ITEM ABOVE

2) WRITE JUST SIX WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE SECRET TO A HAPPY LIFE

3) GOOGLE "SECRET WORDS OF POWER" and see what you find...

4) WHAT "SECRET WORDS" COULD DESCRIBE YOUR LIFE?

5) ANTANACLASIS is a type of verbal play in which one word is used in two contrasting senses:

" And there´s bars on the corner

   And there´s bars on the heart"...Tim Mc Graw  Where the green grass grows..

Find out 5 polysemic words both in Spanish and English...