"Revoke" --
It's the latest in a line of semi-real and imaginary words which spring into my mind at about 5 AM.
For several months, now, I've had a just-before-waking-up dream which features one, brand new, useful word. Whatever the situation, it always inspires the feeling "What a great expression. I'll use it from now on."
Of course I forget it soon after waking.
Sometimes the term is made up of syllables from related words and sometimes it features all new sounds. However it can be an existing word but with an entirely new meaning like "revoke".
Here, the "voke"part meant more than just "to call" as in "invoke". It meant to create. And the "Re-" prefix meant "once more" as in "repeat" or "reinstate". Therefore it meant to create once again, taking more effort than just reinstating something that had never totally disappeared. That would be the word "re-invoke". I can't remember what, in the dream, it was necessary to "re-voke", but of course it was immensely important.
Silly words.
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