{"id":1561,"date":"2019-04-05T04:45:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T11:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2019-04-04T19:29:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T02:29:41","slug":"friday-vocabulary-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=1561","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n1. bema<\/strong> — platform for public speaking, esp. in ancient Athens\r\n

Heady though it must have been to ascend to the <\/em>bema, a new-formed philosopher assumed great responsibility when promulgating his doctrine, as the several prosecutions (and many more accusations) for corrupting the Athenian youth indicate.<\/em><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n2. prodromal<\/strong> — premonitory (symptom)\r\n

The sufferer of oral herpes may experience a <\/em>prodromal itching or tingling at the location where the lesions will appear.<\/em><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n3. baize<\/strong> — woolen fabric with long nap, usu. green, resembling felt, frequently seen covering billiard tables\r\n

What I had initially taken to be a desk blotter was actually an inlaid <\/em>baize band apparently used by Sir Roberts to better organize the documents he examined for signs of forgery.<\/em><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n4. papule<\/strong> — small pointed swelling of the skin\r\n

The small dots seen as the first signs of chicken pox quickly develop into <\/em>papules which will then support a clear vesicle at their center.<\/em><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n5. mantissa<\/strong> — decimal part of logarithm; (obs.<\/em>) small part or addition of little importance\r\n

A particular set of digits will all have the same <\/em>mantissa regardless of where the decimal point is placed within that set of digits.<\/em><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n6. selvage<\/strong> — finishing of woven material so that the edge will not unravel\r\n

The quality of <\/em>selvage denim is greater than the non-selvage variety, due in part to the tighter weaves used in producing the former.<\/em><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n7. teleology<\/strong> — the study of ultimate ends or causes\r\n

Most creationist texts exhibit a manifest projection of anthromorphized <\/em>teleology upon the universe in general and biology in particular.<\/em><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n8. colporteur<\/strong> — hawker or seller of books\r\n

The 19th-century <\/em>colporteur evolved from a peddler of bibles to become an underworld vendor of French postcards and (in the next century) Tijuana Bibles.<\/em><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n9. logorrhea<\/strong> — incessant loquacity; pathological talkativeness\r\n

We withstood the offensive flood of his painful <\/em>logorrhea as long as we could, but eventually we had to simply take our leave — without, of course, getting a word in edgewise, for there was no space between his.<\/em><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n10. antipyretic<\/strong> — tending to reduce fever\r\n

I gave her acetaminophen for its <\/em>antipyretic effect, but you should stay with her tonight in case she suffers further acute intestinal distress.<\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. bema — platform for public speaking, esp. in ancient Athens Heady though it must have been to ascend to the bema, a new-formed philosopher assumed great responsibility when promulgating his doctrine, as the several prosecutions (and many more accusations) for corrupting the Athenian youth indicate.   2. prodromal — premonitory (symptom) The sufferer of … <\/p>\n

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