{"id":2450,"date":"2020-01-17T07:55:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T15:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2020-01-17T07:55:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T15:55:43","slug":"friday-vocabulary-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=2450","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. poioumenon<\/strong> \u2014 metafiction in which the process of writing or creation is the primary subject<\/p>\n

He liked <\/em>Barton Fink as a wonderful example of <\/em>poioumenon, while I just liked it for John Goodman screaming in a burning hallway.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. hotbox<\/strong> (also hot box<\/strong>) \u2014 (railroads<\/em>) overheated axle bearing on rail cars and engines<\/p>\n

But just as we were about to get under way, our car was removed from the train and placed on a siding due to a <\/em>hotbox discovered by the yard crew, who could give us, however, no idea of how long we would be delayed.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. tenuity<\/strong> \u2014 thinness of size; thinness of texture or density; paucity, weakness<\/p>\n

The sheer <\/em>tenuity if not outright vacuity of his thought is obvious from the misinformed connections he makes between the most disparate ideas, connections only possible to a mind trained on a rarified program of conspiracy and illogic.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. mine-run<\/strong> \u2014 average, not special or distinguished in any way, run of the mill<\/p>\n

Still, Pete was lucky to have had no mechanical problems during the race, for his <\/em>mine-run pit crew had their hands full with basic tire changes and refilling the fuel.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. bawdry<\/strong> \u2014 (archaic) lewd speech or writing, obscenity; the practice of a prostitute<\/p>\n

He had imagined a Paris night life of decadent <\/em>bawdry and exciting transgression, but instead had found only the same sullen forced revelry and nauseating drunkenness he had left behind at college.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. imp<\/strong> \u2014 to engraft, to implant; (falconry) to graft feathers into a damaged wing so as to restore or improve flight<\/p>\n

Jason used any feathers he could find for <\/em>imping in new ones when his charges had suffered losses during their hunts, but he seemed partial to the crow feathers that he had in great supply.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. coverture<\/strong> \u2014 legal doctrine under which a married woman’s rights and obligations (to property, to enter contracts, etc.) were subsumed under those of her husband<\/p>\n

If a widow had been named as executor of her deceased husband’s estate during her <\/em>coverture, she must fulfill those duties and settle the estate before remarrying, otherwise her new spouse will assume the office of executor in her stead.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. gimlet<\/strong> \u2014 tool for boring holes, esp. in wood, consisting of a metal screw on a shaft with a handle at the other end<\/p>\n

The lazy apprentices attempted to pilfer wine from their master’s stores, but chose too small a <\/em>gimlet to penetrate fully through the thick wine barrels.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. pricket<\/strong> \u2014 spike upon which to stick a candle; buck in his second year<\/p>\n

At one point they had been a matched pair, but the one candlestick had been left out of doors quite often, and was thus worn and rusted, its <\/em>pricket almost entirely broken off.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. polyuria<\/strong> \u2014 passing abnormally large amounts of urine<\/p>\n

They were worried, naturally, since <\/em>polyuria is defined for all practical purposes as the production of more than three liters of urine in a twenty-four hour period, but their fears were allayed when they realized that he was drinking almost half a dekaliter of soda every day.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. poioumenon \u2014 metafiction in which the process of writing or creation is the primary subject He liked Barton Fink as a wonderful example of poioumenon, while I just liked it for John Goodman screaming in a burning hallway.   2. hotbox (also hot box) \u2014 (railroads) overheated axle bearing on rail cars and engines … <\/p>\n

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