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1. zone<\/strong> \u2014 girdle, belt, cestus<\/p>\n

Such his charm and then his force that at the end of this unequal warfare she threw away her virgin <\/em>zone and ever after they cleaved together like the antient Mother and Father of our human race.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. haycock<\/strong> \u2014 hay heaped into a cone<\/p>\n

We sat against the one <\/em>haycock which lay beneath the shade of the old oak at the corner of the field, eating our bread and onion, watching the clouds, and speaking quite volubly of nothing at all.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. vexillology<\/strong> \u2014 study of flags<\/p>\n

Whereas once the quadrennial Olympics were an opportunity for impromptu <\/em>vexillology lessons, now modern television graphics have relegated each country’s flag to a tiny box of vague color somewhere among a mass of statistics, blurbs, and photos of the various athletes in an array of striking poses.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. incommensurable<\/strong> \u2014 without a common standard of comparison, having no shared basis of measure; entirely disproportionate<\/p>\n

Though the accountants may use the same numbers to tally up your paltry income and that of the wealthiest CEOs and ‘capitalists’, in reality the gulf between your existences is <\/em>incommensurable, for you shall always be burdened by the knowledge that every act, every purchase, every choice, has a price, which cost is as nothing to that other class.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. syncretic<\/strong> \u2014 joining or reconciling diverse beliefs or practices<\/p>\n

But the wild and varied beliefs of the Hippie Frontier crashed against the rock of fundamentalist American religion, the latter itself a <\/em>syncretic meld of “hoorah!” jingoistic patriotism, almost misunderstood sacred texts, and a vague nostalgic recollection of the church practices of their ancestors.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. monotonically<\/strong> \u2014 in or with a monotone; [mathematics<\/em>] (of a function) generating ever-increasing or -decreasing values ad seriatum<\/em><\/p>\n

I thought I’d found a <\/em>monotonically increasing correlation between my alcohol consumption and my social prowess, but was unprepared for the sudden and catastrophic collapse of my wave function.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. dedecorate<\/strong> \u2014 to dishonor; to stain, to disfigure<\/p>\n

Your favors to dishonest men allow those rapscallions to <\/em>dedecorate the high office to which you have been called.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. mortmain<\/strong> \u2014 inalienable ownership<\/p>\n

Though of course the Rule Against Perpetuities has its place, dissolving the barriers against fair taxation which <\/em>mortmain erected, the destruction of that latter principle also dovetails with the modern penchant to think of nothing\u2014absolutely nothing\u2014as exempt from sale, perhaps up to and including those so-called “inalienable rights” which Jefferson so highly spoke of.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. wily beguily<\/strong> (also wilie beguilie<\/strong>) \u2014 [obsolete<\/em>] crafty person caught by their own trickery<\/p>\n

Had he been less cunning he would succeeded, but by playing <\/em>wily beguily he caught only himself with his cleverness, and succeeded only in placing a hempen collar about his own neck, which will forever mar his drinking.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. perorally<\/strong> \u2014 by mouth<\/p>\n

The patient must have nothing <\/em>perorally for twenty-four hours before the surgery.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(British food)<\/p>\n

bread and scrape<\/strong> \u2014 bread and dripping, toast with melted-away fat from roasting meat; bread with thinnest amount of butter applied<\/p>\n

As he grew older and as his economic circumstances became a trifle less dire, his tastes grew more catholic and his larder became less barren, but he never lost his love of the simplest dishes of his impecunious youth, such as the rare treat of <\/em>bread and scrape (though even he would confess to gilding the lily somewhat, adding jelly to the drippings on his fancy wheat toast).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. zone \u2014 girdle, belt, cestus Such his charm and then his force that at the end of this unequal warfare she threw away her virgin zone and ever after they cleaved together like the antient Mother and Father of our human race.   2. haycock \u2014 hay heaped into a cone We sat against … <\/p>\n

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