Houston is represented in the United States Congress by U.S. Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and U.S. Representatives Kevin Brady, John Culberson, Al Green, Gene Green, Sheila Jackson Lee, Michael McCaul, Pete Olson, Brian Babin, and Ted Poe.
From Italian capisci, the second-person present-tense form of capire â(âto understandâ), from Latin capere â(âto grasp, seizeâ).
When things effervesce, they fizz and froth like a carbonated drink. Champagne is a well known sweet wine that effervesces. Anything that bubbles in a foamy, frothy way can be said to effervesce. Soda poured over ice in a glass effervesces, and waves on a beach sometimes effervesce as they break, leaving tiny bubbles on the sand. Things that are bubbly or carbonated are effervescent â and both words come from a Latin root, effervescere, to boil up or boil over, combining ex, out, and fervescere, begin to boil.