[DOC] [TLE] An honest quiz show? What is `Jeopardy'? - Page 2 - tribunedigital ... [PAR] Jul 24, 2002 ... ... Double in "Four-Syllable Words": "This adjective referring to a reversal of 
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but ... an adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly... [DOC] [TLE] Preposterous | Define Preposterous at Dictionary.com [PAR] completely contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd; senseless; ... 
unpreposterous, adjective ... C16: from Latin praeposterus reversed, from prae in 
front, before + posterus ... 1540s, from Latin praeposterus "absurd, contrary to 
nature, inverted, perverted, in reverse order," literally "before-behind" (cf. topsy-
turvy,... [DOC] [TLE] L1 - Teacher 2E - Text - Bolchazy-Carducci [PAR] ern languages come from the language used by the ancient Romans: French, 
Italian, ... 2  Latin for the New Millennium: Teacher's Manual, Level 1 ..... book 
employs the abbreviations bce (Before the Common Era) and ce ..... sense since 
1949. ... The adjective preposterous literally means before behind (from the 
Latin... [DOC] [TLE] preposterous - Memidex dictionary/thesaurus [PAR] Latin praeposterus "absurd, contrary to nature", literally "before-behind". ... 
contrary to reason or common sense; utterly absurd or ridiculous (10 of 59 words, 
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music ... reversed, inverted, perverted"), from prae ("before") + posterus ("coming 
after"). [DOC] [TLE] Preposterous  One Word Each Day [PAR] Sep 12, 2016 ... |adjective|contrary to nature, reason, or common sense ... in reverse order, 
literally before-behind (compare topsy-turvy, cart before ... Preposterous is of 
interest to me because it combines two Latin prefixes pre-, and post-. [DOC] [TLE] Rhetoric and Composition/Parts of Speech - Wikibooks, open books ... [PAR] Nouns appear: after adjectives, after articles, as a subject of a sentence, ... Even 
when a collective noun is in the singular form, it can be used to refer to a group. ... 
the and sometimes proceed nouns or other words that come before a noun. ... ---If 
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praeposterus; prae before + posterus coming after, latter. ... 1540s, from Latin 
praeposterus "absurd, contrary to nature, inverted, perverted, in reverse order," 
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sense. [DOC] [TLE] Selected Non-Fictions - Library of Babel [PAR]

Question: This adjective referring to a reversal of common sense comes from the Latin for "before behind"
Answer: preposterous