{"id":3510,"date":"2021-08-27T01:32:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T08:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3510"},"modified":"2021-08-27T01:48:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T08:48:50","slug":"friday-vocabulary-171","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3510","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. longanimity<\/strong> \u2014 patient suffering, forbearance<\/p>\n

Still, his mother showed such great <\/em>longanimity during his endless travails that all the neighbors wondered that such a saint had borne such a son.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. recondite<\/strong> \u2014 abstruse, uncommonly profound; little known, obscure<\/p>\n

Though I spent several years waiting upon the professor, hearkening to his every word, sitting at his feet hoping to obtain some small portion of his <\/em>recondite wisdom, I look back upon those times now and realize that I must have been stark, raving mad.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. munity<\/strong> \u2014 bestowed privilege<\/p>\n

Do not denigrate the social <\/em>munities which are vouchsafed to you by your current status and position; they can be taken away as quickly as they were granted.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. overlearn<\/strong> \u2014 to learn or memorize more than needed for existing use<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the Ebbinghaus curve of forgetting suggests that <\/em>overlearning does have a purpose beyond merely deadening the spirit with mindless repetition <\/em>ad infinitum.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. buncombe<\/strong> (less common, though the original, spelling of bunkum<\/strong>) \u2014 humbug, claptrap; mere speechifying<\/p>\n

Naylor’s newfound fascination with scientific mixtures for hog feed is just more <\/em>buncombe, another effort to make a profit off the current worries of his constituents.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. flitch<\/strong> \u2014 side of bacon; square of whale blubber; halibut steak; lengthwise cut plank of wood<\/p>\n

My old Westie’s happiest day was when he found the refrigerator door wide open and chowed down an entire <\/em>flitch of bacon before anyone noticed the theft.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. durance<\/strong> \u2014 imprisonment; [obsolete<\/em>] duration; endurance<\/p>\n

And while your ears were held in <\/em>durance by his monotonous words of little meaning, you failed to notice that his eyes were speaking an entirely different sort of message to your own wife.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. snorter<\/strong> \u2014 [slang<\/em>] rip-roarer, remarkable thing; one who snorts<\/p>\n

“Have you ridden yet in Ned’s Italo-Suiza? What a <\/em>snorter!”<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. fornenst<\/strong> \u2014 next to; facing<\/p>\n

I placed the poker <\/em>fornenst the stool, so that it would be ready at hand no matter which way the conversation went.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. hidage<\/strong> \u2014 [obsolete<\/em>] medieval tax upon land<\/p>\n

Infamous for the four <\/em>hidages he levied upon each plough land, all was forgiven when his foreign wars finally met with great success.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(Irish idiom)<\/p>\n

on foot of<\/strong> \u2014 because of<\/p>\n

He was discharged from the post <\/em>on foot of previous allegations (later proven) of malfeasance whilst fundraising for the United Charities.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. longanimity \u2014 patient suffering, forbearance Still, his mother showed such great longanimity during his endless travails that all the neighbors wondered that such a saint had borne such a son.   2. recondite \u2014 abstruse, uncommonly profound; little known, obscure Though I spent several years waiting upon the professor, hearkening to his every word, … <\/p>\n

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