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1. catoptric<\/strong> \u2014 of or related to a mirror, or to optical reflection<\/p>\n

He felt lost in this strange, emotional world, in which people’s motivations always eluded him, and wished he could create some <\/em>catoptric device capable of splitting and reflecting the psychic waves around him, a psychological Michelson-Morley experiment to enable him to determine just which way the social aether around him flowed.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. water-cart<\/strong> \u2014 vehicle consisting of a barrel or tank on wheels, used primarily to water streets, though sometimes used to provide water for consumption<\/p>\n

After his third failure at a desk job, the boss gave Hector the duty of manning the <\/em>water-cart patrolling the south side, near the stockyards.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. buccal<\/strong> \u2014 of or related to the cheek<\/p>\n

Once bitten, he couldn’t seem to stop reinjuring his cheek whenever he ate, and of course he couldn’t slap a bandage into his <\/em>buccal cavity.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. acroter<\/strong> \u2014 pedestal at apex or bases of pediment, upon which statue or ornament (an acroterium or acroterion) is placed<\/p>\n

The statues themselves had long been lost, making the stubby <\/em>acroteria on either side of the squat temple resemble Hellboy’s cut-off devil’s horns.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. argal<\/strong> \u2014 therefore (used facetiously to suggest clumsy reasoning)<\/p>\n

You say you read very little, <\/em>argal, this dictionary will be quite a valuable book for you, as it shall retain its pristine pages and thus its resale value.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. phaeton<\/strong> \u2014 light four-wheeled carriage with forward-facing seats<\/p>\n

To one side of the mounts of the principals and their seconds stood the doctor’s <\/em>phaeton which had been brought in the possibly forlorn hope that the loser of the duel might be brought back to health if he could be carried away quickly to the medico’s surgery.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. annelid<\/strong> \u2014 worm<\/p>\n

Now you shall see how the <\/em>annelid turns about!<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. scathe<\/strong> \u2014 to injure, to damage; to destroy by fire or lightning, etc.; to shrivel or waste with invective<\/p>\n

You can still make out where the old cabin stood, before it was <\/em>scathed by the roiling flames of the meth lab explosion.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. joss<\/strong> \u2014 Chinese cult image or idol<\/p>\n

Although the term became associated with both the incense used in worship and the house where the idols of the deities were maintained, the term ‘<\/em>joss‘ itself is not of Chinese, but of Portuguese origin, being a corruption of the word ‘Deus’.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. rufous<\/strong> \u2014 brownish red, ferruginous<\/p>\n

Pete had the worst case of trucker’s tan I ever hope to see, his left arm a hairy <\/em>rufous mass while his right, though just as massive, seemed a pallid thread-covered log in comparison.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. catoptric \u2014 of or related to a mirror, or to optical reflection He felt lost in this strange, emotional world, in which people’s motivations always eluded him, and wished he could create some catoptric device capable of splitting and reflecting the psychic waves around him, a psychological Michelson-Morley experiment to enable him to determine … <\/p>\n

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