{"id":3841,"date":"2022-06-17T08:58:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T15:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3841"},"modified":"2022-06-17T08:58:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T15:58:18","slug":"friday-vocabulary-211","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3841","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. plutonomy<\/strong> \u2014 study of the creation and distribution of wealth, political economy; society in which wealth and consumption is controlled by very few members<\/p>\n

But in the world within the strange grasp of the modern dark <\/em>plutonomy, Micawber’s dictum that happiness results when expenditures are less than income seems no longer to apply.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. slype<\/strong> \u2014 [architecture<\/em>] covered passageway, esp. from chapter house to a cathedral’s transept<\/p>\n

Cold drops of water interrupted Brother Marian’s meditations as he walked beneath a hole in the roof of the <\/em>slype leading from the cloister to the cemetery.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. slipe<\/strong> \u2014 to peel, to strip away an outer covering<\/p>\n

These early wagon trails were marked by having notches <\/em>sliped into the trees on either side, the origin of such routes as Three Notch Road.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. asafetida<\/strong> \u2014 stinky gum used in cooking, derived from plant of the same name<\/p>\n

Though <\/em>asafetida smells so like sulphur that it is called the ‘devil’s dung’, when used in cooking the odor is smoothly reminiscent of onions.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. devocate<\/strong> \u2014 to call down<\/p>\n

The sorcerer thinks he can <\/em>devocate the angels or even the highest power in heaven, but it is rather the very soul of the would-be wizard which is brought down into the power of the foul spirits of hell itself.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. belvedere<\/strong> \u2014 [architecture<\/em>] raised turret, or open-side gallery for viewing the surrounding vista, either atop a house or standing alone on a prominence<\/p>\n

But the captain was unapproachable in the tall <\/em>belvedere perched aft, both ladders guarded by sailors who politely, but firmly, told us both that these realms were off-limits to mere passengers.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. nautch<\/strong> \u2014 sensuous dance of South Asia; professional dancing-girl who performs such dance<\/p>\n

Seduced by the curves and convulsions of the <\/em>nautch, Perry forgot all about his promise to the distant Beatrice.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. missal<\/strong> \u2014 book detailing service of mass for a year; prayer-book<\/p>\n

Tucked within the pages of her childhood <\/em>missal was a notice of funeral services for the young father Lucien, the only evidence remaining of her elder brother.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. anaphora<\/strong> \u2014 [rhetoric<\/em>] repetition of initial word or phrase in successive clauses; [grammar<\/em>] substitution of earlier word in sentence with a different word<\/p>\n

The powerful <\/em>anaphora in Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech where he hammers home that “Now is the time…” four times in quick succession is all the more poignant when we reflect on the fact that that ‘now’ was almost sixty years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. henotheism<\/strong> \u2014 worship of single god without disbelief in other deities<\/p>\n

At this late time and after all the elisions and accretions of prejudiced history it is impossible to judge whether the original religion of ancient Peru was a typical <\/em>henotheism centered around sun worship or whether, as Christoval de Molina asserts, it was a monotheistic belief which saw all other ‘powers’ as merely creations of the one Creator.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(British military idiom)<\/p>\n

stellenbosch<\/strong> \u2014 to be set aside, to be shifted sideways (from Boer War, when poor officers were sent to the Western Cape town of the same name to look after horses, without losing rank<\/em>)<\/p>\n

“Well, that’s it,” the chief inspector told me, as he packed his pipe full of the awful rag he preferred, “I’ve been <\/em>stellenbosched. I suppose arresting Lord Harry was the final straw.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. plutonomy \u2014 study of the creation and distribution of wealth, political economy; society in which wealth and consumption is controlled by very few members But in the world within the strange grasp of the modern dark plutonomy, Micawber’s dictum that happiness results when expenditures are less than income seems no longer to apply.   … <\/p>\n

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