{"id":4075,"date":"2023-03-03T11:21:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T19:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=4075"},"modified":"2023-03-03T11:27:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T19:27:19","slug":"friday-vocabulary-246","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=4075","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. soubise<\/strong> \u2014 onion sauce <\/p>\n

For this delicate filet an equally delicate <\/em>soubise is the perfect accompaniment, the sauce also serving to highlight the flavor of the fresh leeks.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. prescind<\/strong> \u2014 to cut off; to separate in thought, to consider apart<\/p>\n

But as Peirce points out, one cannot <\/em>prescind color from space or objects, a consideration which had troubled the ancient School of Names in the time of Confucius.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. cerise<\/strong> \u2014 bright red<\/p>\n

For their trip he affected the same nautical look so beloved of L. Ron Hubbard, donning a captain’s cap, blue blazer, and an <\/em>cerise ascot.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. avaunt<\/strong> \u2014 [archaic<\/em>] begone, go away<\/p>\n

<\/em>Avaunt thee, vile dog!<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. draughts<\/strong> \u2014 [British<\/em>] checkers<\/p>\n

To relieve some of the boredom while we waited for the rescue party to arrive, we fashioned a board and pieces from the ruined suitcase and played game after game of <\/em>draughts.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. ladybird<\/strong> \u2014 variant for ladybug<\/p>\n

Just before I knocked at the door a <\/em>ladybird alighted on my already outstretched hand, which I took as a sign of good favor for my endeavors.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. scabrid<\/strong> \u2014 rough surfaced<\/p>\n

The touch of his <\/em>scabrid forefinger upon my cheek was almost more than I could stand.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. susurration<\/strong> \u2014 whisper; rustling<\/p>\n

Finally the savage fury of the storm abated and the rains ceased, leaving behind an eerie quiet made only more uncanny by the gentle <\/em>susurration of the dying winds through the eucalyptus overhead.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. pareidolia<\/strong> \u2014 misperception of meaningful patterns where none exist<\/p>\n

It’s one thing to see a duck or a rabbit in the clouds, but it’s near lunatic <\/em>pareidolia to find a message in Morse Code in the random abrasions on your old blue jeans.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. fetiparous<\/strong> (also foetiparous<\/strong>) \u2014 [biology<\/em>] giving birth before the young are fully developed<\/p>\n

One of the advantages of <\/em>fetiparous marsupials is the reduction of harm to the mother caused by long pregnancies during seasons bereft of food.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(British)<\/p>\n

curate’s egg<\/strong> \u2014 something asserted to be both bad and good, but which is entirely awful<\/p>\n

Much though I would like to proclaim this volume of short stories to be a mixed bag, a <\/em>curate’s egg of fiction, my duty as a reviewer compels me to confess that it is a terrible collection of some of the worst ‘writing’ I have suffered through in years.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. soubise \u2014 onion sauce For this delicate filet an equally delicate soubise is the perfect accompaniment, the sauce also serving to highlight the flavor of the fresh leeks.   2. prescind \u2014 to cut off; to separate in thought, to consider apart But as Peirce points out, one cannot prescind color from space or … <\/p>\n

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