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NOTE: Due to recently (27 June 2019) discovered repetition of a previously used vocabulary word, the offending entry has been replaced with a new word, definition, and example sentence. The original entry is preserved with strikethrough formatting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

1. prolepsis<\/strong> — (1) marshaling counterarguments to a position so they may be refuted in advance<\/p>\n

“Just because I’m crazy,” he said as a <\/em>prolepsis to the wild conspiracy ideas he had just recited, “doesn’t mean I’m not right.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. prolepsis<\/strong> — (2) prochronism; placing something (person, event, etc.) at too early a date<\/p>\n

Many Rotten Tomatoes reviewers noted the heroine’s warning call using the 999 number in 1947 as a <\/em>prolepsis, but in fact the United Kingdom had introduced the emergency call system a decade earlier, after a disastrous fire in 1935.<\/em><\/p>\n

Her disbelief that Georgia driver license numbers used to be the same as the person’s Social Security number was just another example of quite common Internet security <\/em>prolepsis.<\/em><\/del><\/p>\n

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3. invigilate<\/strong> — to watch over students during an exam<\/p>\n

As a WADA official, Jack’s least favorite job was <\/em>invigilating while the athletes micturated.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. flibbertigibbet<\/strong> — gossip; flighty woman<\/p>\n

If his next-door neighbor wasn’t such a distracting <\/em>flibbertigibbet, she would have been quite annoying.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. chryselephantine<\/strong> — of or covered with gold and ivory<\/p>\n

Of the half-dozen lost Seven Wonders, I should like most to see the <\/em>chryselephantine statue of Zeus at Olympia.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. soteriology<\/strong> — doctrine of salvation<\/p>\n

The one-armed man in the back seat of the bus kept declaiming in a loud voice, saying one should never confuse <\/em>soteriology with Paulinian doctrine.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. fain<\/strong> — gladly<\/p>\n

“I would <\/em>fain support you in this battle, were not I so evilly afflicted by these irksome bone spurs.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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irrefragable<\/strong> — indisputable, undeniable<\/del><\/p>\n

The ability of believers in doomsday cults to rationalize after the world doesn’t end indicates that (for humans, at least) there is no such thing as <\/em>irrefragable proof.<\/em><\/del><\/p>\n

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8. gymnosophist<\/strong> — member of an ascetic group of Jains, noted for wearing little or no clothing and for eating no meat<\/p>\n

Fancying himself a latter-day breatharian <\/em>gymnosophist, he sat in his boxers with his feet up refusing to stand lest he kill some small insect on the floor, but we just thought he was a total nutjob.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. petrichor<\/strong> — the smell of rain upon very dry earth<\/p>\n

They stood panting after their pellmell dash through the downpour, as the thunder faded into the susurration of the falling rain and the earthy <\/em>petrichor rose up around them in their makeshift shelter at the base of the overhanging cliffs.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. flagitious<\/strong> — extremely wicked <\/p>\n

If you misrepresent another’s intellectual property as your own, I will fully cooperate with enforcement personnel to ensure that your <\/em>flagitious attack on academic and intellectual freedom does not go unpunished.<\/em><\/p>\n

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NOTE: Due to recently (27 June 2019) discovered repetition of a previously used vocabulary word, the offending entry has been replaced with a new word, definition, and example sentence. The original entry is preserved with strikethrough formatting. 1. prolepsis — (1) marshaling counterarguments to a position so they may be refuted in advance “Just because … <\/p>\n

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