{"id":3783,"date":"2022-04-01T08:49:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T15:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3783"},"modified":"2022-04-01T08:58:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T15:58:45","slug":"friday-vocabulary-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3783","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. holism<\/strong> \u2014 theory or system asserting that the whole is greater than the parts<\/p>\n

From this youthful belief in a spiritual and psychological <\/em>holism he moved to an even more radical reductionism, preaching that all so-called ‘elevated states’ stemmed from a combination of a mere three substances found within brain chemistry.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. pig it<\/strong> \u2014 [idiom<\/em>] to live in a slovenly, messy fashion<\/p>\n

Anabelle had been gone barely a week yet he had <\/em>pigged it so severely since she left that not a single surface in the apartment was uncovered by fast food bags or beer bottles or other detritus of his new filthy lifestyle.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. syllogomania<\/strong> (also sullegomania<\/strong>) \u2014 collectionism, compulsive hoarding, mental derangement characterized by obsessive collecting<\/p>\n

Though he spent hours each day\u2014perhaps as much as 36 hours each week\u2014sorting and organizing and labelling all his files\u2014Jacquet never admitted how much his digital <\/em>syllogomania was taking over his entire life.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. secundus<\/strong> \u2014 second<\/p>\n

<\/em>Secundus, setting a set goal for savings at this time is more practical than arguing over buying a house, when neither you nor your girlfriend have anywhere near the required cash or credit to do so, making your entire argument moot.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. velum<\/strong> \u2014 [biology<\/em>] membrane; the soft palate; [meteorology<\/em>] widespread thin cloud<\/p>\n

Velar consonants such as the hard ‘g’ or ‘k’ in English are so named because the back of the tongue contacts the <\/em>velum during their articulation.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. anathema<\/strong> \u2014 detested or hated thing or person, abomination; formal curse pronounced as part of excommunication<\/p>\n

After the incident with the ferret, the very notion of furries and plushies became <\/em>anathema to him.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. shatter<\/strong> \u2014 to break into pieces; [drug slang] cannabis extract similar to wax with translucent amber to yellow appearance and tendency to break, with affects (allegedly) similar to hash oil<\/p>\n

Marco’s hopes were <\/em>shattered when he realized that instead of <\/em>shatter he had purchased a glop of oily Play-Doh.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. swathe<\/strong> \u2014 to wrap in layers of material; to bandage<\/p>\n

Around the camp we took bets on Adrian’s hairstyle, which none of us had ever seen, <\/em>swathed as it was beneath the keffiyeh he habitually wore.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. merle<\/strong> \u2014 blackbird<\/p>\n

I can no more stop smiling at her loveliness than the <\/em>merle can stop singing in the dappled wood.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. volt<\/strong> (also volte<\/strong>) \u2014 leap or jerk in fencing to avoid a thrust; turning in a tight circle in dressage<\/p>\n

Keeping the mare’s croup to the center of the circle, Lardley managed a quite passable <\/em>volt before his outside leg began to cramp and the horse gave up on the evolution.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(railroads)<\/p>\n

journal box<\/strong> \u2014 metal box on side frame of railroad truck containing bearings and one end of an axle<\/p>\n

Make sure to check the <\/em>journal boxes of every car to be sure they all have plenty of grease before the run up to the Big Twisty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. holism \u2014 theory or system asserting that the whole is greater than the parts From this youthful belief in a spiritual and psychological holism he moved to an even more radical reductionism, preaching that all so-called ‘elevated states’ stemmed from a combination of a mere three substances found within brain chemistry.   2. pig … <\/p>\n

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