{"id":317,"date":"2011-06-23T22:21:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T05:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2011-08-12T12:43:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T19:43:14","slug":"friday-vocabulary-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. myrmidon<\/strong> — blindly loyal follower and carryer-out of a leader’s orders<\/p>\n

If Hunstman refuses to sign the No Tax Increase pledge, the Tea Party <\/em>myrmidons may exact their revenge by ensuring that he cannot gain the Republican nomination.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. metempsychosis<\/strong> — transmigration of the soul<\/p>\n

The disavowal of spirit or soul (call it what you will) in modern thought seems to look less and less like <\/em>metempsychosis and more and more like plain psychosis.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. acidulous<\/strong> — slightly sour<\/p>\n

Attacking the worst excesses of celebrity distracts from real issues of health and life and love, and even the most scathing diatribe warrants an <\/em>acidulous tone at best.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. limpid<\/strong> — clear<\/p>\n

The hawk circling high overhead was a stark speck in the otherwise <\/em>limpid desert sky.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. dyspareunia<\/strong> — pain during intercourse<\/p>\n

Barbaric neanderthals might mistakenly believe that <\/em>dyspareunia is expected by women, but in fact it may be an early sign of ovarian cancer.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. vermiculate<\/strong> — having wormlike, wavy lines<\/p>\n

Every pain, every failed promise could be read in the <\/em>vermiculate coffer that still held the ring he had never had the courage to proffer to Emily.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. crepuscular<\/strong> — like twilight; dim<\/p>\n

In the <\/em>crepuscular light of the attic, he could not discern the mounted deer antlers which gashed his forehead, narrowly missing his eye socket.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. obiter dictum<\/strong> — judicial opinion incidental to a given case, and thus not legally binding<\/p>\n

Strangely enough, the entire principle by which the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution has been held to give corporations all the rights of “persons” can be traced to an <\/em>obiter dictum made in 1886 by a Supreme Court Justice before oral arguments began in the case before the Court.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. refract<\/strong> — to change by transmission or viewing through a medium<\/p>\n

Though each age believes that it and it alone sees clearly what its predecessors only dimly viewed, it is obvious that every age — including our own — <\/em>refracts the truth through its cultural lens.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. anon<\/strong> — soon<\/p>\n

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1. myrmidon — blindly loyal follower and carryer-out of a leader’s orders If Hunstman refuses to sign the No Tax Increase pledge, the Tea Party myrmidons may exact their revenge by ensuring that he cannot gain the Republican nomination.   2. metempsychosis — transmigration of the soul The disavowal of spirit or soul (call it … <\/p>\n

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