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1. velleity<\/strong> — the merest wish, without any attempt to gain it<\/p>\n

For some, reading self-help books becomes an end in itself, substituting a <\/em>velleity for a program.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. hamartia<\/strong> — tragic flaw<\/p>\n

Bill Clinton’s sexual misadventures seem matched by the hubris of many politicians today, but they pale beside Nixon’s <\/em>hamartia — a fundamental mistrust of other people.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. construe<\/strong> — to infer; to deduce the meaning of<\/p>\n

He <\/em>construed her rolling eyes to mean that once again he had had one too many.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. contemporaneous<\/strong> — happening or living at the same time<\/p>\n

Sitting Bull was <\/em>contemporaneous with Richard Wagner, though one would hardly call them contemporaries.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. recension<\/strong> — revision, usually critical, of a literary work<\/p>\n

The 1984 Gabler <\/em>recension of James Joyce’s <\/em>Ulysses was highly controversial, but it is unlikely that any edition of the masterwork will ever be considered authoritative.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. reputed<\/strong> — supposed, alleged, widely believed<\/p>\n

Iraq was <\/em>reputed to have weapons of mass destruction.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. Phoebus<\/strong> — the sun; Apollo the sun god<\/p>\n

Bedecked in his self-designed Reichsmarschall uniform glorified with gold badges and ribbons, G\u00f6ring stood like a fat <\/em>Phoebus in white before the assembled Reichstag.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. paean<\/strong> — song of praise, joy, or tribute<\/p>\n

Some sentences of prose are pedestrian, but some transcend their own words to become <\/em>paeans to language.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. synovitis<\/strong> — inflammation of the membrane around a joint<\/p>\n

Though the original diagnosis was <\/em>synovitis, Rimbaud’s post mortem diagnosis was cancer.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. genesis<\/strong> — beginning, origin<\/p>\n

I touched her tattoo; that was the <\/em>genesis of everything that followed.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. velleity — the merest wish, without any attempt to gain it For some, reading self-help books becomes an end in itself, substituting a velleity for a program.   2. hamartia — tragic flaw Bill Clinton’s sexual misadventures seem matched by the hubris of many politicians today, but they pale beside Nixon’s hamartia — a … <\/p>\n

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