FOR ADVANCED AND NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS

Welcome everyone to another episode of Get the Word! The series focusing on the etymology, or history and origin, of words in English. Go to the website, www.englishsessionswithmike.com for more content, and for the audio transcript of this episode.

Listen for these words today:

Enfranchise - to ‘enfranchise’ means to give the right to vote to someone

Disenfranchise - to ‘disenfranchise’ means to deprive or remove someone’s right to vote

Voter suppression - voter suppression is a strategy that is used to prevent or discourage certain types of people from voting, in order to influence the outcome of an election.

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