{"id":3994,"date":"2022-12-23T09:21:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T17:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3994"},"modified":"2022-12-23T09:21:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T17:21:59","slug":"friday-vocabulary-237","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3994","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. haggard<\/strong> \u2014 appearing worn, exhausted, gaunt, esp. as result of privation or anxiety; wild-looking <\/p>\n

Even in the better light of the foyer, I could hardly believe that the <\/em>haggard and desperate wretch before me was my former lab partner from school, the ruddy-cheeked fair-haired boy who scoffed at peril and laughed at adversity.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. armamentarium<\/strong> \u2014 materials and methods for performing given duties <\/p>\n

Just as Bartlett’s was an essential element in the <\/em>armamentarium of George Will’s quote-boy, so too is a subscription or at least access to every known streaming service a requirement for the modern culture critic.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. procreant<\/strong> \u2014 pertaining to procreation; generating, begetting<\/p>\n

Though we had hoped that this wave of capitalists were impelled by the <\/em>procreant urge to foster more and better companies producing more and better products, once more we found that their stated high motives were driven instead by the baser compulsion to engender more and more money to join the overlarge brood of currency they already had.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. toponymic<\/strong> \u2014 of or related to the study of place names<\/p>\n

But the tension between the slower pace of traditional naming conventions and more modern <\/em>toponymic commodification is shown in the persistent usage of disused or disowned appellations such as Pac Bell Park, San Francisco General, or (in perhaps a more ironic manner) Enron Field.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. sapid<\/strong> \u2014 having a pleasurable taste; having flavor or a distinct taste; agreeable<\/p>\n

Most unspoiled oils are devoid of <\/em>sapid elements though of course small amounts of flavorful or odoriferous ingredients are sometimes added to specialty oils used in cooking.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. hordeolum<\/strong> \u2014 [biology<\/em>] stye<\/p>\n

Running James was in later life a frequent sufferer of <\/em>hordeola, perhaps due to his penchant for heavy black eye makeup in his youth, though as he would always point out during these outbreaks, none of the other members of the band ever endured the same complaint.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. furore<\/strong> (also furor<\/strong>, in U.S.) \u2014 clamorous outbreak or uprising, commotion, to-do, outburst of public excitement or rage<\/p>\n

The <\/em>furore over the painting of the bold prostitute can hardly be imagined now, when art has become so inessential to daily life that current ‘artists’ are reduced to displaying the rotting corpses of aquatic creatures to earn even a few lines of virtual newsprint.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. farthing<\/strong> \u2014 quarter-penny in the old \u00a3sd system of British money<\/p>\n

“I wouldn’t give a bent <\/em>farthing for the whole lot! And you should be ashamed to sell such things in your store!”<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. chamfer<\/strong> \u2014 to cut away material (usually at 45\u00ba) to make a join with another forming an edge or angle<\/p>\n

The outermost walls of the castle have a <\/em>chamfered arris which batter out some eight feet beyond the ground level.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. advent<\/strong> \u2014 arrival, coming into being; (usu. Advent<\/strong>) ecclesiastical season during the four Sundays before the Nativity; (also usu. Advent<\/strong>) the coming of Christ into the world, thus sometimes the Second Coming<\/p>\n

He was an old-fashioned person\u2014though one could hardly call him a gentleman\u2014indulging in reading, listening to phonographs, hiking, cooking, a whole host of activities which seemed to ignore the <\/em>advent of cellular telephony.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(British idiom)<\/p>\n

belt-and-braces<\/strong> \u2014 being doubly cautious (as in use of both belt and braces (Briticism for suspenders) to hold up the trousers)<\/p>\n

As it’s my life that’s to be suspended fifteen hundred feet in the air from a single cable, I don’t think it unwise to be a bit <\/em>belt-and-braces about the technical and mechanical details.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. haggard \u2014 appearing worn, exhausted, gaunt, esp. as result of privation or anxiety; wild-looking Even in the better light of the foyer, I could hardly believe that the haggard and desperate wretch before me was my former lab partner from school, the ruddy-cheeked fair-haired boy who scoffed at peril and laughed at adversity.   … <\/p>\n

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