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pail (PAYL) (noun)
A container that is open at the top and usually has a handle: Please fill the pail with water and pour it on the rosebushes.
pale (PAYL) (adjective)
1. Pertaining to something which is light in color: Marvin painted the walls with a pale blue tone.
2. Concerning someone who has a skin color that is closer to white than is usual or normal: When Bernhart came home from the hospital, his illness left him weak and pale.
2. Concerning someone who has a skin color that is closer to white than is usual or normal: When Bernhart came home from the hospital, his illness left him weak and pale.
The father asked his son, Alan, to bring the light-colored bucket from the garage. "Do you mean the pale pail?" the boy asked.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group P; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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Units related to:
“pale”
(Latin: white; pale)
(Greek: the color yellow; pale, wan, or sallow)
(Greek: original, ancient, primitive, old)
(Latin: grow pale, make pale; dismay, horrify)
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“pale”
pale-ethnography, pale-ethnographer
The written descriptions of extinct members of the genus Homo sapiens by means of their fossil remains.
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ethno-, ethn- +
(page 6)
grapho-, graph-, -graph, -graphy, -grapher, -graphia
(page 64)
palaeo-, palae-, paleo-, pale-
(page 1)