{"id":2695,"date":"2020-03-20T04:34:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T11:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2020-03-19T17:48:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T00:48:58","slug":"friday-vocabulary-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=2695","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. vaporing<\/strong> \u2014 bragging, boastful talk<\/p>\n

For all your <\/em>vaporing about how fine a handyman you are, you’ve done precious little work around the house.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. gore<\/strong> \u2014 triangular or wedge-shaped piece of fabric used as part of a garment, sail, etc.<\/p>\n

The manufacture of the hot air balloon required the most stringent attention to detail, beginning with the parti-colored <\/em>gores making up the most important part of the aerial transport.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. nictitating membrane<\/strong> \u2014 third or inner eyelid for protection from dust and keeping eyes moist<\/p>\n

The chicken’s <\/em>nictitating membrane was drawn over her eyes, giving her a foul, leprous gaze.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. credenza<\/strong> \u2014 (also credence<\/strong>) dining room sideboard or table, used for buffets or for setting dishes to be served<\/p>\n

She had held on through her various moves to her grandmother’s <\/em>credenza, believing it to be a priceless antique, though those hopes were soon to be dashed.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. malefaction<\/strong> \u2014 evil deed, wrong-doing<\/p>\n

The worst part of my <\/em>malefactions has not been the direct harm I’ve done to others, but the further evils perpetrated by those who were inspired\u2014if that is the right word\u2014by my bad actions.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. cannula<\/strong> \u2014 tube for insertion into the body either to allow fluid to escape or to introduce medication<\/p>\n

In cryosurgery the surgeon kills the diseased tissue using liquid nitrogen directed at the specific target through a thin <\/em>cannula.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. dorp<\/strong> \u2014 small village, thorp<\/p>\n

The choice of the moneyed men of the cities was widely rejected by every <\/em>dorp and hamlet where farmers still held to the old ideals.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. quixotic<\/strong> \u2014 enthusiastically idealistic; impractically romantic<\/p>\n

“Don’t you think it all too <\/em>quixotic of you to expect everyone not to pronounce that selfsame word as if the first syllable rhymed with ‘tricks’?”<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. colure<\/strong> \u2014 one of the two meridians of the celestial sphere, one passing through the solstices and the other through the equinoxes, both intersecting above the Earth’s poles<\/p>\n

The two <\/em>colures divide the heavens into four parts, though we on the seas can only see the half of it.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. scramasax<\/strong> \u2014 knife or short sword with a single edge used by the Anglo-Saxons<\/p>\n

I doubt that Otho’s <\/em>scramasax had ever been put to the vile use I now made of it.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. vaporing \u2014 bragging, boastful talk For all your vaporing about how fine a handyman you are, you’ve done precious little work around the house.   2. gore \u2014 triangular or wedge-shaped piece of fabric used as part of a garment, sail, etc. The manufacture of the hot air balloon required the most stringent attention … <\/p>\n

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