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Words are very powerful — so become empowered by enhancing your vocabulary! Check out this week’s word ‘Finito’, a new entrant to the Oxford Dictionary

Finito

Adjective

Definition: Finished: it’s all done—finito

Examples:

• “Just two more classes, three exams and a paper to hand in, then you’re done, finished, finito.”

• “I mean let’s face it, stay out of the game for too long and you are history, you’re ghost, finito, it’s a rap.”

• “We do not want to change it, it is done, finito,” she said.

• “When dad finds out I failed math, I’ll be finito.”

• “My 1972 Fiat is finito — the engine is totally seized!”

Published in Dawn, Young World, May 7th, 2015

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