{"id":3521,"date":"2021-09-10T10:11:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T17:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2021-09-10T10:18:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T17:18:52","slug":"friday-vocabulary-173","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3521","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. artemon<\/strong> \u2014 square sail on a sharply steeved spar at the bow of ancient Roman or Greek merchant vessels and ships<\/p>\n

Runners were sent forward to furl the <\/em>artemon so that the master would have clear sight lines as the enemy ships rushed towards our prow.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. vaward<\/strong> \u2014 [archaic<\/em>] forefront; vanguard<\/p>\n

The noblest captains of Christendom were in the <\/em>vaward that day, doomed by the treacherous words of the blackest knave who ever walked those faraway lands.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. wrack<\/strong> \u2014 destruction due to violence; ruin, catastrophic change for the worse; remnant left behind after destructive force <\/p>\n

Suddenly as it had come the storm abated, and the full moon could just be seen through the cloud <\/em>wrack on the horizon.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. verderer<\/strong> \u2014 officer of the English king having charge of royal forests with especial duty to protect the trees and undergrowth and deer<\/p>\n

The venison has grown scarce lately, and the king fears malfeasance by one or more of his <\/em>verderers.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. invidious<\/strong> \u2014 likely to incite ill will or odium; offensively prejudicial<\/p>\n

Do not take the bait laid out by her <\/em>invidious words, as any response at all give her yet another petty victory.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. fug<\/strong> \u2014 stale, close air<\/p>\n

“Land’s sakes, Jethro! At least allow me to open a window or two and clear the <\/em>fug from your sickroom.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. panmixia<\/strong> \u2014 entirely random mating within a breeding population<\/p>\n

Although <\/em>panmixia brings mathematical comfort to genetics calculations, the concept is so obviously foreign to actually observed breeding habits of most higher animals that it stands as another example of that rational disdain for reality that too often provides the fuel for the engines of science.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. maunch<\/strong> (also manche<\/strong>) \u2014 overly long dropped sleeve fashionable in 14th Century; [heraldry<\/em>] stylized representation of such a sleeve used as armorial bearing<\/p>\n

The maiden in her pale green gown held a single white lily in her right hand, and this color of purity was repeated in the lining of her <\/em>maunch which opened in descent from her lovely arm for a full two feet.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. currawong<\/strong> \u2014 medium-sized crowlike songbird of Australia<\/p>\n

These wrens know well their enemies, and even the nestlings can recognize the sound of a <\/em>currawong walking nearby.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. lower<\/strong> (also lour<\/strong>) \u2014 to scowl or to frown, to appear sullen; to look dark and threatening (esp. of the sky)<\/p>\n

Our guide met every protest we made with a <\/em>lowering insolence.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(fashion)<\/p>\n

Eton crop<\/strong> \u2014 severely short woman’s hairstyle of the late 1920s<\/p>\n

Though worn by such icons as Josephine Baker, by 1930 the <\/em>Eton crop was almost entirely pass\u00e9, associated only with masculine lesbians.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. artemon \u2014 square sail on a sharply steeved spar at the bow of ancient Roman or Greek merchant vessels and ships Runners were sent forward to furl the artemon so that the master would have clear sight lines as the enemy ships rushed towards our prow.   2. vaward \u2014 [archaic] forefront; vanguard The … <\/p>\n

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