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1. tropopause<\/strong> \u2014 atmospheric boundary layer between troposphere and stratosphere<\/p>\n

The air temperature will be at a minimum, <\/em>ceteris paribus, at the <\/em>tropopause, rising as the descent is made through the troposphere to the ground.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. ovinity<\/strong> \u2014 the state of sheep, sheep-like nature<\/p>\n

Hengval believed that most humans lived always in a wretched mire of <\/em>ovinity, their potential for active resistance or even awareness of their oppressive surroundings abandoned from their earliest youth.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. deracinate<\/strong> \u2014 uproot<\/p>\n

The disbelieving officer then grabbed viciously at my beard, thinking it false, and <\/em>deracinated a large portion of the facial hair I’d devoted entirely too much attention to in my effort to win the heart of Miss Kinsey.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. famulus<\/strong> \u2014 servant or assistant, esp. of magician or scholar of the occult<\/p>\n

Whether he was a charismatic con man or another in the long line of the self-deluded is not always clear, but certainly Edward Kelley was no mere <\/em>famulus to Doctor Dee.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. sockdolager<\/strong> \u2014 knockout blow, decisive argument or reply; unusually heavy or large thing<\/p>\n

Finally tiring of our pointless sparring, I grabbed my shotgun from the wall and, when he seemed all-fired to have me shoot him, I gave him a real <\/em>sockdoloager with the gun butt across his skull.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. narghile<\/strong> \u2014 hookah<\/p>\n

I smiled with happy expectation as I caught sight of the fine <\/em>narghile in the corner, but was disappointed to learn that Henry displayed the hookah only as decoration, a nod to his time in the fusileers.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. crannog<\/strong> \u2014 artificial island used as fortification or dwelling in ancient Ireland and Scotland<\/p>\n

Draining the lake revealed the remnants of a drowned <\/em>crannog that once protected the rude inhabitants of this green land from foes also long disappeared from history.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. Corfiot<\/strong> \u2014 of or related to Corfu or a native of Corfu<\/p>\n

Her magisterial debunking of Professor Plangeton’s standard history of the <\/em>Corfiot Jews brought her great renown.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. campanile<\/strong> \u2014 bell tower, often freestanding<\/p>\n

The <\/em>campanile of Pisa Cathedral, of course, is more commonly known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. grizzle<\/strong> \u2014 to make or become gray<\/p>\n

But I found that whatever answers he’d found in that lonely town on the moors had <\/em>grizzled my former school roommate, who had seemed so young and enthusiastic as he left to take up his duties as parish priest.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(history)<\/p>\n

Nansen passport<\/strong> \u2014 passports issued under the auspices of the League of Nations for stateless persons after World War I<\/p>\n

But after the Second World War there was not the same impetus to issue a new version of the <\/em>Nansen passport, which had primarily been necessitated by Bolshevik Russia’s rescission of citizenship for all Russians living abroad.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. tropopause \u2014 atmospheric boundary layer between troposphere and stratosphere The air temperature will be at a minimum, ceteris paribus, at the tropopause, rising as the descent is made through the troposphere to the ground.   2. ovinity \u2014 the state of sheep, sheep-like nature Hengval believed that most humans lived always in a wretched … <\/p>\n

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