An idiom is a phrase used to represent something that has nothing to do with it and is not literal. For example: raining cats and dogs means it's raining hard and not literally raining animals. Seething with rage is not an idiom as seethe basically means mad or angry. Angry or mad with rage can be literal and is not an idiom.
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- Aristocracy (aristos - excellent; kratos - rule).
- Democrat (from democracy, demo - people; kratos - rule).
- Diplomat (from diplomacy, diploma - two; kratos - rule).
- Monocrat (from monocracy, mono - one; kratos - rule).
Many words that we use in English have Greek roots. This is usually because many Greek concepts (especially those of science, philosophy and art) were adopted by the Romans, and then passed on to Romance languages. These words then passed to English due to French influence.
The sunrise is quick and unexpected. Because it is so easy, I would suggest you try to answer this yourself. :)
“whose father worked for the railroad” is a subordinate clause as it is a relative clause beginning with the pronoun “whose”. It is particularly used in written English and it refers to possession of things or to make association or connections with other things or people.
