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1. prosopopeia<\/strong> — personification (Rhetoric) <\/p>\n

The walls spoke silently of years of decaying neglect, the persistent <\/em> prosopopeia of drywall and dust sounding its forlorn dirge for love’s opportunities lost.<\/em><\/p>\n

2. apodictic<\/strong> — incontestable because demonstrable <\/p>\n

In spite of her constant allusions to the spiritual basis of life, she seemed always to search for <\/em>apodictic rules by which to live.<\/em><\/p>\n

3. malversation<\/strong> — corrupt or improper conduct in office <\/p>\n

The speaker bewailed the current political climate in his jeremiad, preaching that even blatant <\/em>malversation was neither punished nor even illegal anymore.<\/em><\/p>\n

4. tauromachia<\/strong> — a bullfight, bullfighting <\/p>\n

Her taste for <\/em>tauromachia showed a feral side that gave Pete pause.<\/em><\/p>\n

5. catamite<\/strong> — a boy or youth in a sexual relationship with a man <\/p>\n

Julius Caesar’s enemies often whispered that he had played the <\/em>catamite on his path to political power.<\/em><\/p>\n

6. epigraph<\/strong> — an inscription, on a building, statue, or the like <\/p>\n

The <\/em>epigraph at CIA headquarters — “The Truth Will Set You Free” — seems ironic unless one questions who is the subject of that sentence.<\/em><\/p>\n

7. hypostatize<\/strong> — to treat as a distinct object or reality <\/p>\n

The capitalization of all nouns in written German seems indicative of a tendency to <\/em>hypostatize even the most abstract ideas.<\/em><\/p>\n

8. maieutic<\/strong> — of or related to the Socratic method of education <\/p>\n

Barzun compares the <\/em>maieutic process to midwifery.<\/em><\/p>\n

9. ambient<\/strong> — of the surrounding environment <\/p>\n

It was impossible to hold an actual conversation, due to the <\/em>ambient noise in the bar.<\/em><\/p>\n

10. palliate<\/strong> — mitigate <\/p>\n

The front-row seats proffered by the driver <\/em>mitigated somewhat the damage done to my bike.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. prosopopeia — personification (Rhetoric) The walls spoke silently of years of decaying neglect, the persistent prosopopeia of drywall and dust sounding its forlorn dirge for love’s opportunities lost. 2. apodictic — incontestable because demonstrable In spite of her constant allusions to the spiritual basis of life, she seemed always to search for apodictic rules … <\/p>\n

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