nointrigue.com » Vocabulary http://www.nointrigue.com/blog Enoch Lau's Blog Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:27:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au/ Vocabulary: invigilator http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2008/07/24/vocabulary-invigilator/ http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2008/07/24/vocabulary-invigilator/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:58:10 +0000 Enoch Lau http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/?p=152 Today’s word is invigilator, meaning “one who watches over students at an examination”. I first encountered this word on the Real Property exam notice, initially putting it down to Professor Peter Butt’s sense of humour. The word has a certain Death Eater ring to it doesn’t it?

Alas, it’s a real word – although the OED tells me that invigilate used to mean “watch carefully” in a more general sense.

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