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1. jingo<\/strong> \u2014 bellicose patriot<\/p>\n

Appalled at Lord Muley’s quick insistence on massive reductions in the fleet, Sir Richard showed why he was considered the foremost <\/em>jingo in the opposition with a long and loud speech of both hawkish and mawkish protest.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. rondure<\/strong> \u2014 supple roundness; orb, sphere<\/p>\n

As they swung through the canted bars of the nested Dymaxion domes, Harry found himself admiring Ellie’s splendid <\/em>rondure perhaps more than was strictly necessary.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. lemniscus<\/strong> \u2014 bundle of white nerve fibers in brainstem<\/p>\n

Though Von Monakow’s explanation of the causative factors are not altogether satisfactory, his study of the consequences of lesions upon the <\/em>lemniscus is nonetheless quite authoritative.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. kleptocracy<\/strong> \u2014 rule by thieves<\/p>\n

And thus was a once mighty republic torn asunder, turned into an insensate <\/em>kleptocracy whose barbarous rulers were goverened only by their basest desires for gold and power and other, darker, lusts.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. pibroch<\/strong> \u2014 funereal or martial bagpipe music<\/p>\n

Long they heard the wailin’, the hesitating skirling, of Donny on the cliffs, trying over and over to master the <\/em>pibroch his uncle had written for his pipes.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. waffy<\/strong> \u2014 [British idiom<\/em>] silly; faint; sickly, nauseating<\/p>\n

But I come over all <\/em>waffy and had to set down a spell, and have a bit of water.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. zonulet<\/strong> \u2014 [archaic<\/em>] little zone<\/p>\n

I, too, was fascinated by that <\/em>zonulet of love Herrick spoke of.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. dioecious<\/strong> \u2014 [biology<\/em>] having male and female sex organs in separate individuals (esp. of plants)<\/p>\n

As even the most novice doper knows, marijuana plants are <\/em>dioecious, and identification of the sexes is an important skill for a grower to have.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. petrary<\/strong> \u2014 generic term for stone-heaving instruments of war<\/p>\n

And now the order was given for all our <\/em>petrary to be unleashed, and I loosed the mangonel with satisfaction, happy to see my small stones added to the huge boulders of the catapults and trebuchets.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. farl<\/strong> \u2014 [Scots<\/em>] flatbread or cake, typically cut in quadrants<\/p>\n

He shared with me half a <\/em>farl and I thanked him heartily, though the sodabread was hard chewing with no water or other drink.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(British idiom)<\/p>\n

on one’s uppers<\/strong> \u2014 very poor, destitute [from idea of poverty so acute that one’s shoes have worn away all the leather, so that only the upper portion remains]<\/p>\n

But mostly he was just lazy, only searching for work when he was really and truly <\/em>on his uppers.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. jingo \u2014 bellicose patriot Appalled at Lord Muley’s quick insistence on massive reductions in the fleet, Sir Richard showed why he was considered the foremost jingo in the opposition with a long and loud speech of both hawkish and mawkish protest.   2. rondure \u2014 supple roundness; orb, sphere As they swung through the … <\/p>\n

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