{"id":3372,"date":"2021-04-23T10:46:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T17:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3372"},"modified":"2021-04-23T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T18:00:44","slug":"friday-vocabulary-153","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3372","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. depilate<\/strong> \u2014 to remove hair from, “to make bare of hair” [OED<\/em>]<\/p>\n

Josun had originally <\/em>depilated his arms and legs because of the bicycle racing; now, however, it had become something of an obsession.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. arrack<\/strong> \u2014 liquor made from fermented sap of palm or cane or fermented rice, typically distilled in India and Southeast Asia<\/p>\n

Both men were insensate, the one laid low by <\/em>arrack and the other by hashish, the stentorian snores of the former a marked contrast to the drooling slumbers of the other.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. scion<\/strong> \u2014 shoot or twig; descendant<\/p>\n

While Ferdinand’s odd project of placing books into abandoned shopping carts might be thought a <\/em>scion of the Little Library idea, his penchant for only sharing copies of Ayn Rand’s <\/em>Anthem suggests a more complex scheme.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. vesta<\/strong> \u2014 [British<\/em>] short wax or wood friction match<\/p>\n

The weak flame of my next-to-last <\/em>vesta revealed only that the presence of writing upon the rusted iron sign before it sputtered and died out.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. billycock<\/strong> \u2014 derby or bowler hat<\/p>\n

We finally captured the errant hamster beneath the brand new <\/em>billycock of Charles, who immediately searched for an alternative rodent prison, fearing for his heretofore spotless headgear.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. destrier<\/strong> \u2014 war-horse, charger<\/p>\n

The bold knight jumped down from his <\/em>destrier and with his mace cleared the slavering barbarians away from the fallen maiden.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. welk<\/strong> \u2014 [obsolete<\/em>] to fade, to wilt, to wither<\/p>\n

But now are summer’s flowers all <\/em>welked and sere, and the ache of frost is in the morning wind.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. envoi<\/strong> (also envoy<\/strong>) \u2014 closing stanza of poem; author’s concluding remarks<\/p>\n

A lone piper played a mournful tune as the final troop ship cast off, a fitting <\/em>envoi to the close of British rule on this small island.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. false key<\/strong> \u2014 lockpick or skeleton key<\/p>\n

Dottie and I returned to our rooms to find that some thief had opened our trunks (doubtless by means of <\/em>false keys, as no marks of a pry were found) and rifled through their contents.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. turf<\/strong> (also turf out<\/strong>) \u2014 [British idiom<\/em>] to forcibly remove, to kick out<\/p>\n

After building the houses and making improvements for twelve years, these families are now <\/em>turfed by the council’s new requirements from the very homes they made.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(slang)<\/p>\n

thunder mug<\/strong> \u2014 small portable signal cannon with a handle; chamber pot<\/p>\n

As a guest I felt it my duty to carry the <\/em>thunder mug out back to empty its contents onto the midden.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. depilate \u2014 to remove hair from, “to make bare of hair” [OED] Josun had originally depilated his arms and legs because of the bicycle racing; now, however, it had become something of an obsession.   2. arrack \u2014 liquor made from fermented sap of palm or cane or fermented rice, typically distilled in India … <\/p>\n

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