{"id":3147,"date":"2020-11-20T10:35:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T18:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2020-11-20T10:35:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T18:35:09","slug":"friday-vocabulary-131","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3147","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. budge<\/strong> \u2014 lambskin fur<\/p>\n

Master Pieter sat at his counting table in a warm green houppelande trimmed sensibly with black <\/em>budge, holding the letter tightly in his left hand, its seal intact.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. pottle<\/strong> \u2014 former liquid measure equal to a half-gallon; vessel of this capacity<\/p>\n

We split a <\/em>pottle of sack while he told me of his scheme.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. bradykinin<\/strong> \u2014 peptide hormone that mediates inflammation<\/p>\n

Scientists are now researching whether fluid build-up in the lungs of COVID-19 patients may result from problems of <\/em>bradykinin regulation.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. wanhope<\/strong> \u2014 despair, hopelessness<\/p>\n

I was beset by waves of <\/em>wanhope and felt I could not even lift my helpless head to look towards God in His heaven.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. toll<\/strong> \u2014 to lure, to attract, to decoy<\/p>\n

And so the two pretended enemies worked together to <\/em>toll into their snare any ignorant farmer who thought to make a few pennies gambling at the fair.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. esker<\/strong> \u2014 gravel ridges formed by glaciers<\/p>\n

Ireland was divided nearly in twain by the broad <\/em>esker running from Dublin to Galway.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. perseverate<\/strong> \u2014 to repeat endlessly or insistently<\/p>\n

And if I tried just to ignore him, he would <\/em>perseverate my name <\/em>ad infinitum\u2014”John! John! John! John!”\u2014until I would finally give up and ask him, “What?!?”, at which point he would once more resume his discussion of the second Lego movie.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. bride<\/strong> \u2014 thread or threads connecting parts of lacework<\/p>\n

A cocklebur had become entangled with the <\/em>brides of her lace collar.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. pelf<\/strong> \u2014 property; booty, spoils<\/p>\n

Neither love nor <\/em>pelf will make me turn aside from the course of honor.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. foozle<\/strong> \u2014 to bungle, esp. in golf<\/p>\n

He walked over to the counter and <\/em>foozled his approach to the attractive blonde, slipping on the freshly waxed tile and falling backwards onto his poor sacroiliac.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(Latin)<\/p>\n

pari possu<\/strong> \u2014 side by side; equally<\/p>\n

The loosening of restrictions needs to progress <\/em>pari passu with the build-up of medical tracking and infrastructure.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. budge \u2014 lambskin fur Master Pieter sat at his counting table in a warm green houppelande trimmed sensibly with black budge, holding the letter tightly in his left hand, its seal intact.   2. pottle \u2014 former liquid measure equal to a half-gallon; vessel of this capacity We split a pottle of sack while … <\/p>\n

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