New Delhi, Nov. 11 -- The mid-term elections in the US delivered a sharp rebuke to President Donald Trump. The verdict was a repudiation of his actions in the second term as president. There has been a veritable explosion of "r" words to describe the rout of the Republicans.

The word rout traces its origins to the Old French word route, which means a broken company and stems from the Latin word rupta, the past participle of rumpere or to break.

Rebuke also originates from an Old French word bouche, or mouth, and with the prefix means stopping someone's mouth. While rebuke deals with the mouth, repudiate deals with the foot, or ped in Latin. Literally, it means to kick away something that you want to disown.

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