1. panentheism — tenet that God is the entirety of the universe and yet somehow transcends the universe as well
The author claims Rumi as a believer in panentheism because the Sufi poet finds God to be both transcendent and immanent, but then again, this is also the view held in most Catholic orthodoxy.
2. antiperistasis — quality whereby opposition to a force causes the original force to grow stronger
Through some miracle of antiperistasis Jennings functioned best in the worst situations, just as when he was the only man aboard the yacht to keep his head when the reef stove in the hull, but in ordinary times he was lackadaisical, almost soporific in his attitude, giving no attention to anything whatsoever as if he could not be bothered unless the circumstances were truly dire.
3. antiperistalsis — reversed peristalsis, upward (instead of downward) impelled motion of the intestines’ contents
And as a secondary consequence of the neuro-motor damage Lieutenant Soark was afflicted with a terrible and violent antiperistalsis, with results which I shudder to recall and which I dare not describe.
4. rugosity — state of being wrinkled or corrugated
The several spring showers which had pleased us so much had unfortunately left the dirt road to Old Man Mosley’s house in a terrible state, and the rugosity of the loose-packed gravel threatened to buck our Model A into valley below.
5. tire — [obsolete] to dress, to attire
She tired her hair with jewels in a cunning golden net, giving pride of place to the huge sapphire her lord had given her the evening before.
6. barchan — crescent-shaped sand dune formed by wind
Our headlong flight took us to the base of a deceptively short barchan, whose height of sand was sufficient, however, to hobble our horses and prevent our escape from Black Robert and his marauders.
7. heliotrope — pinkish purple color; flowers for which the color is named
He opened the door wearing an angora sweater of such a distracting heliotrope that I found myself forgetting why I had interrupted my neighbor’s breakfast.
8. delf — pit, quarry, mine
Into the dark delves fell the miners as the retaining piles gave way.
9. cheviot — coarse woolen twill fabric
Comfortably bundled up in his cheviot motor coat, Flenders pulled on his driving gloves and invited us to come along for the ride.
10. criminogenic — causing crime, of the bases of criminal behavior
Parker, on the other hand, turned the equation completely around, positing that the most significant criminogenic impulses arose, not in the conditions and stresses affecting the poorest and most vile citizens, but from the so-called ‘leaders of society’, whose own villainies were papered over with the euphemism of ‘white collar crime’, as if the much greater despoliations and numerically more significant losses of life and health were mere bagatelles of crime, and thus (in Parker’s view) this snidely dismissive insouciance towards the greatest lawbreakers—certainly the largest in terms of actual material theft and human suffering—led to a concomitant belief pervading all levels of society in the ultimate worthlessness of human beings and thus the rise in crime statistics of the lower classes which was so trumpeted by the media.
Bonus Vocabulary
(Jungian psychology)
enantiodromia — supposed tendency for any extreme in a system to arrive or to turn into its opposite
But all this focus upon the power of human reason may engender the enantiodromia that Jung claimed to find in any extreme perturbation of any psychologic system, as when the triumph over superstition during the French Revolution led to the—quite reasonable, I’m sure—noyades and other judicial murders of thousands across all the lands of France, and just as reason led Che Guevara to kill his own thousands as commander of La Cabaña Fortress.