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1. loathe<\/strong> \u2014 to detest, to feel disgust for or towards<\/p>\n

I simply <\/em>loathe the new branding, and don’t even get me started on what they’ve done to the mascot.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. loath<\/strong> \u2014 unwilling, averse, reluctant<\/p>\n

<\/em>Loath as I was to bring the bad news to Elsa, I realized that it was, after all, my painful duty.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. tomnoddy<\/strong> \u2014 fool, dunce; puffin<\/p>\n

Now Kelvin may have convinced all the other <\/em>tomnoddies at the pub with his fancy talk and bold assertions, but he’d have to go a spell further to convince me.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. ululate<\/strong> \u2014 to howl or wail, esp. by alternating loud high-pitched sounds<\/p>\n

But at the outskirts of town we were beset by a crowd of <\/em>ululating termagants who stopped our progress and beset our carriage like a flock of maddened crows attacking a wounded falcon.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. cumulet<\/strong> \u2014 white domesticated pigeon<\/p>\n

But Bertha found that he had no love to give her, for his devotions were all to his racing pigeons, and one pretty <\/em>cumulet in particular, which he had named Laurie.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. limen<\/strong> \u2014 threshold of perception or response<\/p>\n

By constant application of this method it was believed that the <\/em>limen of physical sensitivity to small changes in temperature could be sharpened to mere tenths of a degree, but modern instrument readings of actual nerve responses have cast doubt upon these self-reported successes.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. milt<\/strong> \u2014 fish semen; spleen of a breeding animal<\/p>\n

As we flew north along the coastline I could just make out in the sun’s last rays a yellow cloud of <\/em>milt a mile or so offshore, evidence of the spawning herring our fishing fleet was searching for.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. belomancy<\/strong> \u2014 divination using arrows<\/p>\n

Just as the ancient Persian was paralyzed at each crossroads by his bizarre <\/em>belomancy, trying to scry the future by the fall of arrows, so Lievenpatten became transfixed in his attempts to use the Chinese art of the I Ching, casting his yarrow stalks time after time in some misguided belief that that ancient text would reveal the next correct action, the next choice he must make.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. commonplace book<\/strong> \u2014 personal notebook into which quotes and memoranda were written<\/p>\n

But as fascinating as these nostalgic items from fifty years ago were, I was much more interested in what had been written upon the two pages of my uncle’s <\/em>commonplace book which he’d torn out roughly leaving a jagged remnant upon which I convinced myself I could just make out a few stray letters, suggestive of … well, I wasn’t sure what they were suggestive of.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. jiggery-pokery<\/strong> \u2014 [British<\/em>] trickery; manipulation<\/p>\n

Though nothing was proven, many on The Street believed that Rosen had achieved his immense success through some sort of <\/em>jiggery-pokery or sharp dealing\u2014though as I say, nothing was ever proven and no person ever came forward to accuse him of any particular act.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(San Francisco Bay Area slang)<\/p>\n

bip<\/strong> \u2014 to steal from a car by smashing a window and taking items left on the seats<\/p>\n

Hell, they were just cruising down the avenue, bold as brass, one of ’em hopping out of the Lexus (a Lexus!), checking the window of each parked car, and <\/em>bipping any that had anything inside.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. loathe \u2014 to detest, to feel disgust for or towards I simply loathe the new branding, and don’t even get me started on what they’ve done to the mascot.   2. loath \u2014 unwilling, averse, reluctant Loath as I was to bring the bad news to Elsa, I realized that it was, after all, … <\/p>\n

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