Monday, December 28, 2015

secretary, sectary

Secretary or secretary means someone who is in charge of minutes of meetings, correspondence, and records of a club or organization--
Will the secretary read the minutes of the last meeting?
He's the club secretary, and she's the treasurer.

Secretary also means someone who does the typing and filing in an office, or for an executive--
Most people do their own typing now, but a secretary is still useful.
She was a secretary for many years, until she retired.

Secretary also means the head of a government department--
She will be the Secretary of State if the nomination is approved by the Senate.
FDR was once the Secretary of the Navy.

Secretary may also mean a desk with drawers on the bottom and shelves on the top--
She entered a bid on that antique secretary.
My grandmother had a secretary like that.

Sectary or sectary means a member of a faction or cult, or of a noncomformist religious denomination--
He is a sectary of a small fundamentalist church.
One of the students is a sectary of an evangelist cult, and often proselytizes to his classmates.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"Our secretary has received several letters from a sectary of a born again church, angry that we called his religion intolerant."

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