Today's Word "Replete"
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replete \ree-PLEET or reh-PLEET\ (adjective) - Abundantly provided with parts that complete the whole.
"Albert's new job came replete with long hours and short tempers."
From Latin repletus "filled up" from re- + ple-n-us "full". Related to replenish. Latin plenus is an Indo-European cognate of English full and Russian pol-nyj "full". The "p" original PIE *pel-/pol would be realized in Germanic languages like English as "f" as a result of (Jakob) Grimm's Law, discovered by the man of fairy tales.
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