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1. indurate<\/strong> \u2014 to harden; to make callous; to inure<\/p>\n

Yet this same experience which had left me an unrepentant criminal had not <\/em>indurated Wilfred’s heart and soul.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. parterre<\/strong> \u2014 ornamental flower beds; rear section of main floor in an auditorium<\/p>\n

All these delectable vegetables were surrounded by rows of shrubbery, beyond which stood a stone statue of a young girl, atop a small bird bath, which had a small circular <\/em>parterre of carnations and daisies around its base, perhaps planted by the very girl in question.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. vaunt<\/strong> \u2014 boast<\/p>\n

But he immediately regretted his <\/em>vaunt as the lighter which he swore had never once failed to light, failed to light.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. distemper<\/strong> \u2014 to paint with distemper, a paint using glue or size instead of oil as base; [British<\/em>] to whitewash<\/p>\n

The workmen were busily <\/em>distempering the exposed roof beams, blending the most notable feature of the cottage insensibly into the ugly white stucco interior walls.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. noctuary<\/strong> \u2014 record of incidents which happen at night, journal of nocturnal happenings<\/p>\n

So terrible were those hours, days, weeks, months within that fetid dungeon that no diary, but only a <\/em>noctuary would be suitable to record their horrors.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. drugget<\/strong> \u2014 coarse hair rug; coarse felted or woven woolen fabric<\/p>\n

Traces of arsenic were found in the weave of the <\/em>drugget in the girl’s bedroom, though of course any member of the household had access to that room during the day.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. freeboard<\/strong> \u2014 distance between waterline and topmost waterproof deck on a ship<\/p>\n

The low <\/em>freeboard of the monitor ships made them a difficult target for cannon, but that same feature also made them very unseaworthy and suitable only for riverine use.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. ogive<\/strong> \u2014 [statistics<\/em>] graph of cumulative distribution function; [architecture] roundly pointed arch, rib supporting such an arch<\/p>\n

When comparing the sex-specific <\/em>ogives of drug response broken down by age, the researchers noticed a strange plateau among males of between 25 and 45 years of age, which led them to the discovery of the new epigenetic pathway we are still investigating to this day.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. pulmotor<\/strong> \u2014 trademarked cycling resuscitator developed in 1907<\/p>\n

She has recovered from her boating accident, but only regained consciousness after four hours use of the <\/em>pulmotor.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. forehanded<\/strong> \u2014 prudent; resilient<\/p>\n

I never thought my cousin a <\/em>forehanded man, but Ned somehow managed to save enough to buy the farm outright.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(idiom)<\/p>\n

make a pig’s ear of<\/strong> \u2014 to botch, to make a mess of<\/p>\n

I was too proud to ask for help, and I <\/em>made a pig’s ear of the job from start to finish.<\/em><\/p>\n

(Cockney slang)<\/p>\n

pig’s ear<\/strong> \u2014 beer<\/p>\n

“Ned, on your way back from the khazi, grab me a <\/em>pig’s ear.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. indurate \u2014 to harden; to make callous; to inure Yet this same experience which had left me an unrepentant criminal had not indurated Wilfred’s heart and soul.   2. parterre \u2014 ornamental flower beds; rear section of main floor in an auditorium All these delectable vegetables were surrounded by rows of shrubbery, beyond which … <\/p>\n

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