Intrinsic (adj)
in-trin-zik
Belonging naturally; essential.
Late 15th century (in the general sense ‘interior, inner’): from French intrinsèque, from late Latin intrinsecus, from the earlier adverb intrinsecus ‘inwardly, inwards’.
Example sentences
“Access to art and literature is intrinsic to a happy and fulfilled life.”
Boscage (noun) bos-kij a mass of trees or shrubs; wood, grove, or thicket. 1350–1400; Middle English boskage. Middle French boscage. (more…)
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