schedule

Defenestrate means to throw out of a window. It can also mean to remove someone from power in a dramatic or sudden way.

“Gargoyle” and “gargle” share an origin in words for the throat and gurgling sound of water. The link becomes clearer in history.

“Dunce” began with Duns Scotus, a major medieval philosopher. Later critics turned his name into an insult for supposed stupidity.

Receipt once meant receiving. Its silent p was added to reflect Latin, while recipe kept an older pronunciation from the same root.

“Guy” began with Guy Fawkes, then shifted from a burned effigy to a shabby person, and later to the everyday word we use now.