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Show I LEARN A WORD EVER DAY Today's word Is NAIVE. It's pronounced nah-eei and in lh original l'remh, from which language lan-guage it was borrowed should be without accent, though In English the second syllable Is emphasi.-.ed. It means unaffectedly simple, un-sophlsticot un-sophlsticot 1, artless. It conies from French, "naive or naif," whence, In turn, it is from Latin. "natlvus," meaning "Innate, natural, native." it's used like this "Experienced politicians expresj considerable amusement at the seeming naive belief be-lief of the interests which hope to profit from a high protective tariff that their motives are wholly altruistic, altru-istic, while all who oppose thern are selfishly actuated." oo |