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1. a fortiori<\/strong> — all the more, for an even stronger reason<\/p>\n

Since she hired a private detective to shadow her husband, then <\/em>a fortiori she would have no compunction in reading his personal email.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. dido<\/strong> — bauble, trifle<\/p>\n

She wore a necklace she had made from a little <\/em>dido she had found among costume jewelry at the church rummage sale.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. tinnitus<\/strong> — a ringing in the ears<\/p>\n

His enjoyment of piano concertos was sullied by his constant <\/em>tinnitus, an unfortunate consequence of a mispent youth and too many Scorpions concerts.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. interstice<\/strong> — a small space between things<\/p>\n

Our son found almost twelve dollars worth of change in the <\/em>interstices of the couch.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. panchreston<\/strong> — an explanation which attempts to cover all possibilities in a situation, but which is too generalized to be of practical use<\/p>\n

Joel always managed to strike out with women by following explicitly the <\/em>panchrestron of his older brother’s dating advice.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. fervid<\/strong> — passionate or zealous<\/p>\n

Despite my <\/em>fervid attempts to make her see reason, the meter maid gave me a parking ticket anyway.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. clinamen<\/strong> — the unpredictable swerve of atoms, in the philosophy of Lucretius<\/p>\n

Free will was posited to derive from the <\/em>clinamen by Lucretius, and this unexpected and unpredictable behavior has become the cornerstone of many other critical theories ranging from literature to psychology.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. puce<\/strong> — dark or brownish purple<\/p>\n

He still bore the signs of the beating, though his <\/em>puce bruises had faded to a sickly green.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. antiphrasis<\/strong> — use of a word in the opposite sense of its usual meaning<\/p>\n

“How wonderful to see you,” Marcia greeted her ex-husband’s girlfriend, the ironic <\/em>antiphrasis unnoticed as usual by the blonde high school dropout.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. defray<\/strong> — pay costs or expenses<\/p>\n

Herbert looked upon his theft of test answers as simply a means to <\/em>defray his tuition.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. a fortiori — all the more, for an even stronger reason Since she hired a private detective to shadow her husband, then a fortiori she would have no compunction in reading his personal email.   2. dido — bauble, trifle She wore a necklace she had made from a little dido she had found … <\/p>\n

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