elegant – Comes from Latin eligere, “select.” More…
eximious – Means “choice, excellent, select,” or “distinguished.” More…
garble – Originally meant “to sort out” or “to select in a biased way,” and was applied to the selection and sorting out of individual passages from a person’s writings or any separation of the good from the bad, of a selection of the worst and setting aside the better; it evolved to mean “to jumble, scramble.” More…
select – From Latin legere, “choose,” with the prefix se-, “apart.” More…