{"id":3757,"date":"2022-03-04T08:13:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T16:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3757"},"modified":"2022-03-04T09:02:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T17:02:45","slug":"friday-vocabulary-196","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3757","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. scantling<\/strong> \u2014 small piece of wood, usu. used for studs etc.; blocks of wood of a given size; [nautical<\/em>] framing timber of a vessel<\/p>\n

Finally we found the missing doubloon, covered in pitch and hidden in the <\/em>scantlings just aft of the bilge.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. pygarg<\/strong> \u2014 food animal, perhaps a species of antelope<\/p>\n

Among the clean animals permitted as food mentioned in Deuteronomy is the hapax legomenon <\/em>pygarg, commonly thought to be the addax of the Sahara.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. chatoyant<\/strong> \u2014 of changing luster or color; of jewelry cut so that a streak of light is reflected<\/p>\n

The shimmering silky nothing she was wearing seemed either greenish or opalescent or transparent, though the girl’s creamy figure was never quite seen through the <\/em>chatoyant material, no matter the light.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. acatalepsy<\/strong> \u2014 incomprehensibility, Skeptic teaching that only partial perception or plausible conceptions of truth are possible<\/p>\n

Strangely enough, the pyrrhonic Skeptics teaching of absolute <\/em>acatalepsy was co-opted by the rich and the powerful to undercut the idea of social change, thus becoming a tool of the most unphilosophical elements of civilization.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. arras<\/strong> \u2014 rich tapestry; hanging screen of such<\/p>\n

Behind the <\/em>arras was a small alcove in which a pair of rusting swords had been forgotten.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. speak<\/strong> \u2014 [nautical] to communicate with at sea through semaphore or sound<\/p>\n

The last record we have of the <\/em>Red Locust is from either the fifth or sixth day of March, when the jaunty schooner <\/em>spoke a Swedish collier in the North Sea.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. ablution<\/strong> \u2014 washing of the hands, face, etc.<\/p>\n

After my morning <\/em>ablutions were complete I selected my cleanest collar and cuffs and prepared to beard the lion in his own den.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. ablation<\/strong> \u2014 removal; loss of surface (as of rocks or a glacier) through erosion or other natural process<\/p>\n

The question thus becomes to what extent the <\/em>ablation of mores and customary niceties by market forces may lead to an entire absence of any moral center in our daily lives.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. melodeon<\/strong> \u2014 small wind organ; small accordion<\/p>\n

Though the parlor lacked a piano, Betsy did have a jolly <\/em>melodeon upon which to practice her musical wiles.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. dour<\/strong> \u2014 sullen; stern<\/p>\n

In all the twenty and seven summers I knew that crotchety old man, I never saw even a sliver of a smile cross his <\/em>dour face, except this one time I’m telling you about now.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(trains)<\/p>\n

blind baggage<\/strong> \u2014 railway postal car with no door on the end, usu. just behind the tender; riding the rails unseen by trainyard bulls<\/p>\n

We had found a gondola and were riding <\/em>blind baggage across the plain when the crow landed beside us, intrigued by our grub.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. scantling \u2014 small piece of wood, usu. used for studs etc.; blocks of wood of a given size; [nautical] framing timber of a vessel Finally we found the missing doubloon, covered in pitch and hidden in the scantlings just aft of the bilge.   2. pygarg \u2014 food animal, perhaps a species of antelope … <\/p>\n

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