Gregarious
Something Rhymes with Purple
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Sowing Your Wild Oats
All of these goes back to the latin grex, g r e x, which meant a herd or a flock. So if you are gregarious, you are er, sort of fond of company,. You're fond of your flock or your herd. If you go to egregious, that originally meant distinguished, so prominent in your field. And obviously it's taken a turn for the worse, because if something is egregious, it is pernicious and very negative. All of those go back to and to farming in the early days. It was what people did because it was about survival - why there are so many idioms i im using now.
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