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1. excursive<\/strong> \u2014 digressive<\/p>\n

What was supposed to have been a pithy pr\u00e9cis turned into an <\/em>excursive epic under the weight of his overheavy pen, topping two hundred pages of turbid prose.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. peterman<\/strong> \u2014 [slang<\/em>] safecracker<\/p>\n

Though once he was renowned as a <\/em>peterman of the first water, today he is as honest a citizen as the next fellow, perhaps more so.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. fiducial<\/strong> \u2014 of a fixed point used for comparison; based upon trust<\/p>\n

Even without a level, they were able to demonstrate that the pool table was out of true by using the wainscoting as a <\/em>fiducial marker.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. stomacher<\/strong> \u2014 ornamented cloth worn over the chest and stomach in 16th Century<\/p>\n

No coins or jewels had she, yet her <\/em>stomacher cost more than I could steal in a year.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. erysipelas<\/strong> \u2014 acute disease of bacterial origin characterized by fever and rough red patches on the skin<\/p>\n

Jock’s legs looked like orange peels when he first contracted <\/em>erysipelas after suffering from gravitational dermatitis.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. spicule<\/strong> \u2014 tiny pointy thing, usu. in groups; huge gas jets shooting from surface of the sun<\/p>\n

Beneath the icy <\/em>spicules his mustache had become, Troy’s pale blue lips were barely discernible.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. persnickety<\/strong> \u2014 fussy; snobby; difficult to work with<\/p>\n

Even before the law changed he was always <\/em>persnickety about seat belts, refusing to even start the car if everyone wasn’t buckled in safely, and I once even saw him pull over and stop the car when a passenger teasingly undid his seat belt.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. zareba<\/strong> \u2014 protective enclosure, as of thorn bushes or stakes<\/p>\n

The camel cavalry, if it can be so called, of the Madhi charge fruitlessly against the <\/em>zareba of the English forces, whose canon decimated the four-legged assault.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. gorbellied<\/strong> \u2014 having a protruding belly<\/p>\n

Don’t even give ’em a second thought, that <\/em>gorbellied crew of Izod wearing, golf cart driving, soulless music listening loveless luckless losers.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. terpsichorean<\/strong> \u2014 of or related to dancing; of or related to Terpsichore<\/p>\n

While I cannot gavotte about, I do love to frolic and pay my untutored homage to the <\/em>terpsichorean muse.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(Latin)<\/p>\n

mirabile dictu<\/strong> \u2014 wonderful to relate, incredible as it seems<\/p>\n

For lack of any other choice, we set off to see the sci-fi comedy movie and, <\/em>mirabile dictu, every one of us from grandparents to granddaughter enjoyed the film thoroughly.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. excursive \u2014 digressive What was supposed to have been a pithy pr\u00e9cis turned into an excursive epic under the weight of his overheavy pen, topping two hundred pages of turbid prose.   2. peterman \u2014 [slang] safecracker Though once he was renowned as a peterman of the first water, today he is as honest … <\/p>\n

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