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1. howe<\/strong> (also how<\/strong>) \u2014 barrow, tumulus <\/p>\n

The aged king was laid in a great <\/em>howe near the source of the river for which he was named.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. riband<\/strong> \u2014 [archaic<\/em>] ribbon, esp. a decorative one<\/p>\n

But Jane’s new bright red <\/em>riband couldn’t entirely hide the thin patches on her most festive headwear, and once more she wished so much they could afford a new hat\u2014or hats, of course, since Mother’s was even more worn.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. heteronym<\/strong> \u2014 identically spelled words with different meanings; different words naming the same thing; imaginary character used by author to write in different style, pseudonym<\/p>\n

By showing the tangled consequences which follow the decision of the protagonist to hide his male identity behind a female <\/em>heteronym, the author\u2014behind his (or her) own pretentious nom de plume Reinhard de St. ffaulkes\u2014wishes to delineate the intersecting and radiating spheres of modern identity, but, in the end, just leaves us all a bit confused, as I suspect the author himself (or herself) may have been by the time he (or she) arrived at the macabre courtroom scene, with its strange interplay of light and shadow and facts from documents opposed to facts from eyewitnesses, not all of whom seem to be precisely differentiated or even characterized.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. boor<\/strong> \u2014 rude person; yokel; peasant<\/p>\n

Yes, I quite understand why you had to invite him, the big <\/em>boor, but I don’t see why you had to seat him next to Agatha, who is probably my most sophisticated friend.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. tattersall<\/strong> \u2014 squares formed by crossed color lines over another, usually light, solid color; fabric in this pattern<\/p>\n

He wore his habitual yellow <\/em>tattersall waistcoat with its red and green lines beneath his green corduroy jacket with the leather elbow patches, and thought himself quite dashing.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. impendent<\/strong> \u2014 impending, imminent<\/p>\n

The whole house was suffused with an air of <\/em>impendent disaster, though it was an open question whether the legal cataclysm would strike before the final collapse of the leaking water pipes.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. quale<\/strong> \u2014 subjective perceptible quality considered as independent entity<\/p>\n

I found it impossible to assemble the various <\/em>qualia arriving fuzzily at my mind into any coherent picture of the real world objects associated with them, though whether this was due to my illness or to the very strong drugs they had given me, I cannot say.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. misericord<\/strong> \u2014 room in monastery where some relaxation of monastic rules was permitted; small ledge on folding church seat providing support for people standing; small dagger or pike designed for making a killing ‘mercy’ stroke against a wounded enemy<\/p>\n

Besides this effulgence of talented artistic depiction, it remains as well to investigate why so many of these intricate English <\/em>misericord carvings depict sin and sinful acts.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. palanquin<\/strong> \u2014 small boxlike litter for carrying a reclining passenger by several men holding poles attached to the conveyance <\/p>\n

In Eastern Bengal at this time regulations were drawn up for the regulation of <\/em>palanquins, generally following those already extant for hackney carriages.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. yoctosecond<\/strong> \u2014 10\u221224<\/sup> seconds, one septillion of a second, one trillionth of a trillionth of a second<\/p>\n

So far, scientists have little to say about the time during the Planck Epoch, a ten-trillionth of a <\/em>yoctosecond in duration, or 10-43<\/sup> seconds.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(British slang)<\/p>\n

camp as a row of tents<\/strong> \u2014 flamboyantly effeminate<\/p>\n

Now Uncle Howard, he was <\/em>camp as a row of tents, but we was all surprised when Reggie came out that summer and then ran off with that scrawny professor, the one with the torn ear and the daft glasses.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. howe (also how) \u2014 barrow, tumulus The aged king was laid in a great howe near the source of the river for which he was named.   2. riband \u2014 [archaic] ribbon, esp. a decorative one But Jane’s new bright red riband couldn’t entirely hide the thin patches on her most festive headwear, and … <\/p>\n

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