{"id":2244,"date":"2019-10-11T06:33:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2019-10-08T17:34:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T00:34:32","slug":"friday-vocabulary-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=2244","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. pouter<\/strong> \u2014 domestic pigeon, noted for puffing out its crop<\/p>\n

In contrast to Jack, whose beer belly could be seen before the man himself, Bert had an almost inverse shape, with a narrow waist and overlarge barrel chest, puffed up like a <\/em>pouter in full distention.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. fons et origo<\/strong> \u2014 source and origin<\/p>\n

And that small accident, the tiniest dent made by the whisper of her bumper upon his new Honda, this trifle was the <\/em>fons et origo of all the consequent nastiness that led to the dreadful disaster.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. list<\/strong> \u2014 to be pleasing to<\/p>\n

I shall do as me <\/em>list, and no law nor force will stay me.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. blent<\/strong> \u2014 past tense and past participle of blend<\/p>\n

If you like your drinks <\/em>blent\u2014not to say turnt\u2014you could do worse than the versatile daiquiri.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. sodality<\/strong> \u2014 companionship, fellowship; an association; society for Catholic laypeople<\/p>\n

Before joining the convent she had been quite active in her <\/em>sodality, taking meals to poor homebound seniors and leading charitable drives during the Christmas season.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. debauch<\/strong> \u2014 to seduce, to corrupt<\/p>\n

His friends and their Bohemian lifestyle had <\/em>debauched the high ideals he had held when first he came to the big city.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. logomachy<\/strong> \u2014 contention or dispute about words<\/p>\n

To insist upon the term \u2018illegal alien\u2019 versus \u2018dreamer\u2019 is not some <\/em>logomachy but rather a beachhead upon the battlefield of political power.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. refectory<\/strong> \u2014 dining hall in a college or religious house<\/p>\n

The plates had all been cleared away yet Tom and Guy still argued in the <\/em>refectory, each determined to win the day which\u2014truth be told\u2014was long since over.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. stipe<\/strong> \u2014 (botany<\/em>) stalk, esp. of a mushroom<\/p>\n

Connoisseurs of psychedelia know that the potency of the <\/em>stipe is the same as that of the cap, so don\u2019t waste anything.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. ramify<\/strong> \u2014 to spread out in branches; to separate into subdivisions<\/p>\n

Petersen really felt that he had finally created the ultimate ontology, for his new software displayed all of human knowledge in three dimensions as each category <\/em>ramified into further more particular subcategories, interconnecting them in a glorious structure he hoped would enable his perfect database.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. pouter \u2014 domestic pigeon, noted for puffing out its crop In contrast to Jack, whose beer belly could be seen before the man himself, Bert had an almost inverse shape, with a narrow waist and overlarge barrel chest, puffed up like a pouter in full distention.   2. fons et origo \u2014 source and … <\/p>\n

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