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1. bodge<\/strong> \u2014 to patch poorly or clumsily<\/p>\n

As long as he remained in his chair nobody could see how he had <\/em>bodged the rip in the seat of his pants, leaving a pleat along the center seam.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. malefic<\/strong> \u2014 producing evil, baleful<\/p>\n

Being snubbed at the party had a <\/em>malefic effect upon his judicial rulings.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. bint<\/strong> \u2014 (British<\/em>) derogatory term for girl or woman<\/p>\n

“No, she won’t be helping with the food\u2014I gave one hard look at the <\/em>bint and she ran away!”<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. ecchymosis<\/strong> \u2014 discoloration from extravasated<\/a> blood beneath the skin<\/p>\n

The purplish <\/em>ecchymosis of a deep bruise will fade to a yellowish green as the hemoglobin is broken down by the body into biliverdin and bilirubin.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. gralloch<\/strong> \u2014 to remove the viscera from game, usu. a deer<\/p>\n

By the time I returned with our camp buckets filled from the stream, Jerry had already <\/em>gralloched the whitetail and was beginning to assemble the fire.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. canting arms<\/strong> \u2014 (also allusive<\/strong> or punning arms<\/strong>) (heraldry<\/em>) coat of arms in which charges make visual play on the bearer’s name or title<\/p>\n

The arms of President Eisenhower stretched the idea of <\/em>canting arms still further, with a blue anvil somehow supposed to evoke the German word ‘eisenhauer’, though this means ‘iron worker’ rather than ‘anvil’.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. canting<\/strong> \u2014 affecting piety, often hypocritically<\/p>\n

For all his strident, whining, <\/em>canting devotion to Marx, the professor remains a true capitalist at heart.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. canting<\/strong> \u2014 using thieves’ slang<\/p>\n

I understood most of the carny’s <\/em>canting words, but had to ask just what a ‘moll dip’ was.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. sternutatory<\/strong> \u2014 causing sneezing<\/p>\n

I have never found snuff to have as strong a <\/em>sternutatory effect as ground black pepper, but his blend always made me sneeze violently, crying all the while.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. fulvous<\/strong> \u2014 dull yellowish-brown, tawny<\/p>\n

Viewing the cougar at this distance through the binoculars, I could appreciate her beauty, the strong feline muscles beneath her <\/em>fulvous coat, her massive paws treading lightly across the rock-strewn hillside.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. bodge \u2014 to patch poorly or clumsily As long as he remained in his chair nobody could see how he had bodged the rip in the seat of his pants, leaving a pleat along the center seam.   2. malefic \u2014 producing evil, baleful Being snubbed at the party had a malefic effect upon … <\/p>\n

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