{"id":2490,"date":"2020-01-24T04:31:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T12:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2020-03-06T15:08:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T23:08:15","slug":"friday-vocabulary-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=2490","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. gyniolatry<\/strong> \u2014 worship of women<\/p>\n

Perhaps Poul Anderson’s <\/em>gyniolatry may seem to balance Philip K. Dick’s misogyny, though more likely both are perversions of the true view of relations between the sexes.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. phenakistiscope<\/strong> \u2014 first device for viewing animated images, consisting of a revolving disc with distinct illustrations that appeared in motion when viewed in a mirror through slits also placed on the disc<\/p>\n

Perhaps the first experience of the pleasure we today receive from widely available GIF animations was found in the 1830s by those patrons fortunate enough to view the clever looped illustrations of the <\/em>phenakistiscope, though of course those 19th-Century viewers could only share the animations by handing the toy to another person in the same room.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. faitour<\/strong> \u2014 (archaic<\/em>) charlatan, cheat, esp. a fortune teller or one feigning illness<\/p>\n

Would that I could make that infamous <\/em>faitour die in sooth and stop forever his false seeming of sickness.<\/em><\/p>\n

[the entry below was discovered to duplicate a previous vocabulary word from 2018, and has been replaced with the entry above]
\nscurf<\/strong> \u2014 morbid skin condition causing scales of skin to be shed in excess; scales of epidermis continually exfoliated from skin; any surface incrustation<\/del><\/p>\n

The once beautiful pastry was now covered by a dark <\/em>scurf of dried mold that sloughed off and dirtied the countertop as the ancient birthday cake was picked up.<\/em><\/del><\/p>\n

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4. diplopia<\/strong> \u2014 double vision<\/p>\n

She had hoped that the crash was not as bad as it had first seemed, but when her <\/em>diplopia lingered on for several weeks she realized that she needed to go to the hospital after all, if it wasn’t already too late.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. dibble<\/strong> \u2014 tool for making holes in ground for seeds, bulbs, seedlings, etc.; to make a hole with a dibble<\/p>\n

The children followed behind Mason with the small beet plants, inserting those into the holes he had made with his <\/em>dibble, as the young boys and girls could not be trusted to <\/em>dibble in a uniform and methodical fashion.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. comber<\/strong> \u2014 long, curving wave<\/p>\n

The small boat stood suspended for a moment at the top of the <\/em>comber, poised at the peak of a precipice that was about to crash them into the rocks with its breaking wave.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. montane<\/strong> \u2014 of or growing in or living in mountain regions<\/p>\n

On their journey from the dying lake at the edge of the red desert to the wooded <\/em>montane pasturage they only lost two sheep, though one ram injured his foreleg so severely he had to be dragged in a travois to the flock’s new home.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. quern<\/strong> \u2014 small, hand-turned mill for grinding corn, grain, etc.<\/p>\n

The Norse legend of the magical, salt-producing <\/em>quern purports to explain why the seas are always salty.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. paludarium<\/strong> \u2014 enclosure combining elements of an aquarium with those of a terrarium<\/p>\n

Bobbi loved her new pet turtle, but her father quickly realized that the maintenance of the <\/em>paludarium was much more work than he had expected.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. kittle cattle<\/strong> \u2014 people difficult to deal with; things difficult to manage<\/p>\n

You’ll soon learn that home remodels are <\/em>kittle cattle, and that even small mistakes can grow to become insurmountable problems if not caught and corrected in time.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(American idiom, from at least 1835 forward*)<\/p>\n

galley-west<\/strong> \u2014 into disarray or confused upset (usu. in phrase ‘to knock galley-west’)<\/p>\n

All of my carefully laid plans were knocked <\/em>galley-west by her failure to fully charge her phone the night before.<\/em><\/p>\n

*Dictionary.com dates this from 1870-1875, but an instance may be found in Nathaniel Ames’s An Old Sailor’s Yarns<\/em>, published in 1835.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. gyniolatry \u2014 worship of women Perhaps Poul Anderson’s gyniolatry may seem to balance Philip K. Dick’s misogyny, though more likely both are perversions of the true view of relations between the sexes.   2. phenakistiscope \u2014 first device for viewing animated images, consisting of a revolving disc with distinct illustrations that appeared in motion … <\/p>\n

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