English is full of Latin that never changed its clothes. When you say a suspect has an alibi, you're speaking Latin: alibi means "elsewhere". An agenda is a list of "things to be done", from agere, to do. A bonus is simply "good". And every time you press play on a video, you're saying "I see".
Some words carry a story. Romans running for office whitened their togas with chalk to look spotless, so they were candidati, "the white-robed ones": our candidates. Salary comes from salarium, built on sal, salt. The tale that soldiers were paid in salt is popular but unproven; I'm simplifying, and the ancient sources don't settle it.
Ludicrous comes from ludus, a game, which was also the word for a school. And the status quo is "the state in which" things are.
Before you quiz yourself: which of these words describes where you weren't?