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1. peltry<\/strong> \u2014 pelts collectively<\/p>\n

Such families of Indians\u2014bedraggled, half-starving, and bone weary from their threadbare existence at the edge of merest survival\u2014supplied in their thousands the <\/em>peltry for one of Europe’s most important streams of commerce.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. aluminium<\/strong> \u2014 [British<\/em>] aluminum<\/p>\n

In fact, <\/em>aluminium is quite widespread; the difficulty is extracting the valuable element from the ores in which it is found.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. heortology<\/strong> \u2014 study of the festivals in the ecclesiastical year<\/p>\n

That was the year of the Great Easter Schism, when a dispute over the actual date of the full moon between the two leading <\/em>heortology departments caused half the faithful to celebrate too early, or (in the view of these celebrants) the other half to celebrate too late.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. wen<\/strong> \u2014 benign sebaceous cystic tumor<\/p>\n

The radical journalist William Cobbett first called London “the Great <\/em>Wen,” likening the burgeoning metropolis to a swelling excrescence upon the face of the nation.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. inflorescence<\/strong> \u2014 arrangement of flowers upon a plant; blossoming, process of flowering<\/p>\n

This spectacle of desert beauty is made all the more precious by the fact that the period of <\/em>inflorescence lasts only for a week or two.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. turbary<\/strong> \u2014 land where peat or turf may be cut for fuel; legal right to cut turf or peat on such land<\/p>\n

Each freeholder of the island were adjudged to have common of <\/em>turbary for supplying his own home with fuel, but not for sale.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. empiric<\/strong> \u2014 one who relies solely upon experience; quack, charlatan<\/p>\n

But the vaunted ‘cure’ of the celebrated <\/em>empiric nearly killed the boy, surprising the mother and no one else.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. cwt<\/strong> \u2014 abbreviation for hundredweight<\/p>\n

Margin in livestock is the sales price per <\/em>cwt less the purchase price per <\/em>cwt, not the profit realized from the sale.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. tercel<\/strong> (also tiercel<\/strong>) \u2014 the male of a hawk, esp. of the goshawk, peregrine falcon, or gyrfalcon<\/p>\n

The master’s <\/em>tercel has finer chambers than we, who are compelled to sleep in whatever corner we may find unoccupied.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. floccillation<\/strong> \u2014 delirious picking at bedclothes, carphology<\/p>\n

Just as <\/em>floccillation in a fevered patient is a serious symptom betokening a poor prognosis, so may our society’s current nit-picking be a bellwether of a cultural malaise.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(from the wealthy Roman L. Licinius Lucullus, famous for his luxurious banquets)<\/p>\n

Lucullian<\/strong> \u2014 lavish, profligate<\/p>\n

After the <\/em>Lucullian feast in such an extravagant setting, the halting after-dinner speech of the quondam gubernatorial hopeful was weak fare indeed.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. peltry \u2014 pelts collectively Such families of Indians\u2014bedraggled, half-starving, and bone weary from their threadbare existence at the edge of merest survival\u2014supplied in their thousands the peltry for one of Europe’s most important streams of commerce.   2. aluminium \u2014 [British] aluminum In fact, aluminium is quite widespread; the difficulty is extracting the valuable … <\/p>\n

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