1. sannyasi — Hindu religious mendicant Although one might have seen young sannyasis and sannyasinis wandering the streets of San Francisco during the so-called Summer of Love, in most views of Hindu philosophy, that path of near total renunciation was reserved for those Brahmans who had entered their twilight years and were approaching their final …
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Friday Vocabulary
1. conduce — to lead, to bring about Far from seeing this as a setback, I believe it will conduce to his eventual success if he learns from the experience. 2. crypt — depression or sinkage surrounding a villus in the intestinal epithelium Each villus may be surrounded by many crypts, and within these—among …
Friday Vocabulary
1. tarlatan — thin, open-mesh muslin, used frequently for ballroom gowns We could discern Jason’s sisters only with difficulty, hidden as they were within a cloud of tarlatan finery of pink and green. 2. scratty — (colloquial) unkempt, scruffy; scrawny By this time, Peele was living in a scratty little SRO by the bus …
Friday Vocabulary
1. lac (also lakh) — (in India) one hundred thousand, esp. of rupees; (fig.) a large, indeterminate number He died as he lived, the master of lac on lac of rupees, without even an ostentatious tomb to mark his passing. 2. indiction — fifteen year time period used in Roman Empire from time of …
500 Books
I have finally finished reading my 500th book since I started tracking such data back in June of 2015. This half-millennium mark was crossed by the completion of the sociological study of consumer habits of the lower-class project dwellers in Manhattan, The Poor Pay More. I received this book in error thinking instead to receive …
Friday Vocabulary
1. boscage — mass of shrubs or trees, thicket His naked legs were covered with scratches from the thorns in the surrounding boscage he had forced his way through. 2. entablature — (architecture) horizontal construction supported by columns in classical temples and the like, consisting of an architrave, a frieze, and a cornice The …
Friday Vocabulary
1. barracoon — temporary holding place for prisoners, esp. slaves The king wished to drive the emigrants away from Port Cresson so that the barracoon could be reopened and his lucrative trade in human souls could recommence. 2. caftan (also kaftan) — loose-fitting, full-length garment with long wide sleeves, worn throughout the Middle East, …
Friday Vocabulary
1. draegerman — specially trained miner who is expert in underground rescue The boisterous draegermen, still prideful after their success at the Slewton Slide, kept teasing the old miner at the end of the bar. 2. ted — to spread out or to strew for drying As the orange sun cast its parting rays …
Friday Vocabulary
1. penetralia — innermost part (esp. of a temple); most secret or private parts We rushed into her well-appointed toilette, and found her already dying, lying in the very penetralia of her boudoir before a beautiful Art Nouveau vanity, a tortoise-shell brush still clutched tightly in her hand. 2. chary — wary, shy, sparing, …
Friday Vocabulary
1. nosology — classification of disease Psychiatric nosology frequently ignores the cultural determinants of so-called mental illnesses. 2. fulminate — to flash like lightning; to explode; to thunder forth condemnation(s); to inveigh violently Though the board has fulminated numberless edicts, motions, and denunciations against the developer, the situation remains exactly as it was one …