1. equiparable — equal in comparison, equivalent Well, it’s really a framing problem, because if you start comparing Animal Crossing to Citizen Kane you’re as foolish as if you asserted that Trump were equaparable to Lincoln. 2. wend — to go or to proceed in a certain direction; to flow, to run, to move …
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Friday Vocabulary
1. epicene — having both male and female characteristics; weak, feeble Michael York strikes an epicene note in his portrayal of Brian Roberts in Cabaret. 2. tonneau — rear compartment of an automobile, esp. in earlier models While it may be fun to drive, you cannot store much in the tonneau of a 1962 …
Friday Vocabulary
1. feist — mongrel dog; truculent person or animal I wasn’t about to let some little feist ruin everything we’d worked towards for over a year. 2. git — (slang) fool, worthless person “You’d better listen, you git, if you don’t want your face mashed in!” 3. pluricentric — having multiple centers An …
500 Books (not really)
I’ve just now completed the 500th book since I began tracking my reading back in 2016. Of course, since I don’t really count comics and graphic novels towards my ‘Books Read’ total, I am not really asserting that I’ve read a spectacular half-chiliad of tomes, but just jotting this brief note in any case. (Comics …
Friday Vocabulary
1. closestool — (also close-stool) stool with hole in its seat, beneath which rests a chamber pot The room he showed me was well-appointed, large enough to have a separate small chamber for the closestool, unlike the mere nook hidden by a curtain I used in my own house. 2. franklin — freeholder of …
500 Days
Another fictive milestone, as I just recently passed the 500 day mark in terms of audio tracks listened to through my iTunes. The (not so) momentous event happened just yesterday (April 11, 2020) at approximately 1:40 in the morning, as I was just finishing listening to “The Joan Fuller Murder Case”, an episode of the …
Friday Vocabulary
1. subrident — with or accompanied by a smile Professor Harlake spoke to the committee with an air of subrident superiority, as if deigning to respond only to prevent even more misinformed opinions from being promulgated. 2. fane — temple The flowers were heaped on the mound like offerings before a pagan fane. …
One Hundred and Fifteen Thousand Songs (115,000)
So 57 days after my last thousand songs were heard, I have just listened to my 115,000th unique iTunes track, music familiar to anyone who has sat through David Niven’s turn as the famous British secret agent James Bond. The tune, “Sir James’ Trip To Find Mata”,* is one of Burt Bacharach’s contributions to the …
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Friday Vocabulary
1. congener — member of same class or kind as another The zealots of French Revolution, like their congeners, may be recognized by their furious devotion to idealistic purity and their rush to purge anyone they feel disagrees with those ideals. 2. ging — gang; crew of ship or boat Just as the captain …
Friday Vocabulary
1. mizzle — (British) to suddenly depart, to vanish Sure looks like your friend mizzled and left you to pick up the tab. 2. menology — written calendar of saints’ biographies, arranged by each saint’s feast day The conversion of St. Cyriac is only attested in the Greek Menology of Emperor Basil, in which …