{"id":3778,"date":"2022-03-25T09:54:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T16:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2022-03-25T09:54:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T16:54:13","slug":"friday-vocabulary-199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3778","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. equipollent<\/strong> \u2014 of equal power; logically equivalent<\/p>\n

The first mistake in Wilber’s reasoning came when he declared that this negation was <\/em>equipollent with absence, whereas even a schoolchild could have told him that not getting dessert was not the same as getting nothing at all.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. misease<\/strong> \u2014 [archaic<\/em>] misery, discomfort, suffering<\/p>\n

The solitary life which had been to him a comfort now turned to great <\/em>misease as he sorely felt the want of friends and had to rely upon paid companions and servitors.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. againward<\/strong> \u2014 once more; back again<\/p>\n

Though his troth he plighted that Whitsuntide Eve, never to return, still he found his steed leading him <\/em>againward ever and anon so heartsick was his longing.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. agal<\/strong> \u2014 cord around keffiyeh holding it in place<\/p>\n

Of course, if you simply find it too difficult to properly wrap the keffiyeh, you can use an <\/em>agal to hold it upon your head, though you lose much of the protective usefulness of the headgear.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. hexapod<\/strong> \u2014 animal having six feet, insect<\/p>\n

“In the continuing war for survival between man and the <\/em>hexapods, only an utter fool would bet against the insect.”<\/em><\/p>\n

(from the 1954 film Mesa Of Lost Women<\/em>)
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6. empyema<\/strong> \u2014 condition wherein pus collects in bodily cavity, particularly in the pleural cavity<\/p>\n

They still gave him a medal, though he died from an <\/em>empyema and not from German bullets, and his hometown buried him like a hero, with a monument and speeches and all.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. evilfavoredness<\/strong> \u2014 state of being ill favored<\/p>\n

I do not say he is evil, but he is plagued by such <\/em>evilfavoredness that his company is not such as I would care to enjoy.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. keratolysis<\/strong> \u2014 shedding of the epidermis, esp. its horny layers<\/p>\n

Peter ascribed the funk of his room to his pitted <\/em>keratolysis, which we all simply called ‘stinkfoot’.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. minutia<\/strong> \u2014 tiny detail (usu. pl.)<\/p>\n

He often gets bogged down in the <\/em>minutiae of a problem, missing the main point entirely.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. scurryfunge<\/strong> \u2014 [obsolete<\/em>] to rush about cleaning one’s house just before company comes over<\/p>\n

Wilma and Jeffrey only called as they were exiting the freeway, so I hardly had any time for cleaning house and only <\/em>scurryfunged for ten minutes hiding this and moving that before I heard their knock upon my front door.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(architecture)<\/p>\n

coping stone<\/strong> \u2014 stone forming the uppermost course of a wall; utmost or completing element <\/p>\n

Doctor Jackson felt that his work on semi-particulate flow would be the <\/em>coping stone of his life’s work, but his colleagues feared that it was simply another seductive dead end, like fractals.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. equipollent \u2014 of equal power; logically equivalent The first mistake in Wilber’s reasoning came when he declared that this negation was equipollent with absence, whereas even a schoolchild could have told him that not getting dessert was not the same as getting nothing at all.   2. misease \u2014 [archaic] misery, discomfort, suffering The … <\/p>\n

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