1. avoirdupois — weight measurement system based upon a pound of 16 ounces; body weight Even from this great distance she can doubtless see that I carry around too much avoirdupois. 2. vigesimal — based upon or related to the number twenty With the arrival of the new century, however, this series of vigesimal …
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Friday Vocabulary
1. mort — hunting horn note signifying death of the prey; [obsolete] death Let the trumpet sound a mort that all may know he lies here dead, and with him all our hopes. 2. mort — three year old salmon For this dish Chef Jackson prefers a mort to any younger fish, to better …
200,000 Songs (No, really)
Though of course it is difficult for we humans to enumerate more things than we have fingers (or fingers and toes, for the more vigesimally inclined), and though I still misdoubt Bourbaki’s great project to ensconce numbers firmly within Set Theory, still one must begin to count somewhere, and eventually one must leave off counting, …
Friday Vocabulary
1. leman — [archaic] lover; mistress ‘Twas an open secret that the fisher’s daughter was the leman of the ruddy-cheeked monk, though perhaps Brother Peter misguessed how widespread was this common knowledge. 2. defalcation — misappropriation (as of funds), embezzlement; shortfall, loss The gambler’s fallacy gave way to a frenzied need to make up …
Friday Vocabulary
1. plutonomy — study of the creation and distribution of wealth, political economy; society in which wealth and consumption is controlled by very few members But in the world within the strange grasp of the modern dark plutonomy, Micawber’s dictum that happiness results when expenditures are less than income seems no longer to apply. …
Friday Vocabulary
1. monopsonistic — of or related to a situation or market where only one buyer exists for given goods or services Before 1976, baseball players found their salaries kept down by the monopsonistic logic of the MLB. 2. endogamy — marriage within only a given tribe or social group Eventually this denaturing endogamy among …
Friday Vocabulary
1. demesne — lands adjoining a manor worked solely for the owner; estate; domain, dominion; possession of land or property in one’s own right But for the foolish choice of his son Lord Willy would still own both castles and all their demesnes, but it is truly said that genius often skips a generation. …
Friday Vocabulary
1. trucidate — to massacre, to murder, to kill, to slaughter It is of no use to contend that these ruffians were trucidated in defense of the republic, for they are murdered men natheless. 2. wether — castrated sheep or goat Lincoln Farms participated in a study to ascertain if the known problems with …
Friday Vocabulary
1. sulky — light two-wheel cart with having only a seat for the driver The springs on the aged sulky were now next to worthless, and I felt every bump and pebble as I made my slow way back to the cottage with my precious cargo. 2. paralogism — instance of spurious logic or …
Friday Vocabulary
1. aseity — metaphysical quality of absolute self-sufficient self existence, existence derived solely from self Though perhaps other aspects of God may be reproduced anagogically by we lesser beings, aseity is starkly centered in and derived solely from the Godhead itself. 2. fifth chain — chain used connecting lead horse to pole when five …