Original release date: January 26th, 2021
Welcome everyone to another episode of Get the Word! The series focusing on the etymology (history and origin) of words in English.
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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