Short and Sweet: Do-Over! Words For Groundhog Day: February 2

Cessare means "to stop" or "to give up" in Latin, and that's where we get the word cease. So something that's ceaseless does not stop, like the passage of time.

Déja vu means "already seen" in French. It describes the sensation of seeing something in real time but feeling like you've seen it before. Scientists say it's the result of a tiny lag in our brain's visual processing, so that we already have a memory of what we're looking at. But insiders know that it means the AI has changed something in the Matrix.

Encore is French for "more." So if you shout "Encore!" after a great concert, it means you want the band to keep playing.

From the same root as ceaseless, above, incessant is another way of describing something that never stops.

This word and the three that follow it all begin with the Latin prefix re-, meaning "again." Capitulum means "chapter," as in a book, so when combined together recapitulation refers to a summary. In classical music it describes revisiting a main theme from earlier in the piece.

Redundant means "overflowing" in Latin. In English it means something needlessly repetitive or excessive. The spirit of the word is best embodied by The Firesign Theatre's fictitious government agency, the "Department of Redundancy Department."

To iterate is to say something, coming directly from the Latin verb iterare. The re- prefix changes it to mean "to say something again."

You probably know the word sequel from approximately 6,000 Fast and Furious movies. But did you know that it comes from the Latin word sequella, meaning "that which follows?" It's also the root of useful related words like sequence, consequence, and sequential.

Another straight-from-Latin borrowing, though with a slightly different spelling than the original superfluus, superfluous means something unnecessary, redundant, or excessive.