{"id":1842,"date":"2019-05-17T09:47:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T16:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2019-05-17T09:47:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T16:47:27","slug":"friday-vocabulary-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=1842","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n1. parergon<\/strong> — embellishment, thing subordinate to main subject\r\n

Burgess maintains that the final chapter of <\/em>A Clockwork Orange was essential to the novel and should never have been removed from the American edition, but Kubrick and many other readers have found it an unconvincing <\/em>parergon.<\/em><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n2. adust<\/strong> — burnt up, scorched\r\n

But under the noonday sun our desert camp became unbearable even in the scanty shade as the temperature rose and rose until the very air was <\/em>adust and seemed painful to breathe into our lungs.<\/em><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n3. shend<\/strong> — revile, scold\r\n

By every voice in the mainstream media his actions were <\/em>shent, yet he remained unashamed.<\/em><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n4. effluvium<\/strong> — vapor or exhalation perceptible only to the sense of smell, esp. one that is noxious or disgusting\r\n

The community break room was bright and clean, yet opening the refrigerator released a repulsive <\/em>effluvium reminiscent of both spoiled milk and dying flowers.<\/em><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n5. larrup<\/strong> — flog, beat, thrash\r\n

If he comes ’round here again, I’ll <\/em>larrup him until he cannot stand upright.<\/em><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n6. iritis<\/strong> — inflammation of the iris\r\n

The cortisone he used for treating his chronic <\/em>iritis had an expired several months past, but he swore that the medicament would still be “just fine”.<\/em><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n7. costermonger<\/strong> — person who sells fruit and vegetables from a street cart; (fig<\/em>.) hawker of any wares\r\n

Virtue is of so little regard in these <\/em>costermongers‘ times that true valor is turned bear-herd.<\/em><\/p>\r\n

Henry IV, Part 2<\/em>, Act I, Scene 2<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n8. ochlocracy<\/strong> — mob-rule\r\n

Fans of the movie <\/em>Heavy Metal will recall the paean to <\/em>ochlocracy by Black Sabbath (from the eponymous album) used in the story of the mute warrior maiden Taarna.<\/em><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n9. equerry<\/strong> — officer in charge of the horses of a royal or an exalted noble; groom\r\n

We found the body of the <\/em>equerry in the stall belonging to the lord’s prize charger; we could not find the massive black Percheron anywhere upon the grounds.<\/em><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n10. fribble<\/strong> — to act aimlessly; to trifle, to behave frivolously; a trifler\r\n

He seemed to me to be the worst type of <\/em>fribble: stupid enough to be convinced of his innate ability and insight, yet powerfully connected enough to cause real damage.<\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. parergon — embellishment, thing subordinate to main subject Burgess maintains that the final chapter of A Clockwork Orange was essential to the novel and should never have been removed from the American edition, but Kubrick and many other readers have found it an unconvincing parergon.   2. adust — burnt up, scorched But under … <\/p>\n

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