{"id":4435,"date":"2024-01-12T09:13:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T17:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=4435"},"modified":"2024-01-12T09:13:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T17:13:53","slug":"friday-vocabulary-283","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=4435","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. erudite<\/strong> \u2014 having or showing lots of knowledge or learning<\/p>\n

But this sort of <\/em>erudite reasoning is hardly to the point when we’re merely trying to decide where to build the outhouse.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. gleeman<\/strong> \u2014 wandering singer (in medieval era)<\/p>\n

But the roles were not always thought of as separate in those times, and the term ‘juggler’ (or ‘<\/em>jongleur‘) might be used of dancers, actors, acrobats, or <\/em>gleemen.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. skewiff<\/strong> (also skewwhiff<\/strong> or skew-whiff<\/strong>) \u2014 [Australian colloquial<\/em>] askew, awry, out of line<\/p>\n

You could tell Andy had started drinking earlier than usual that day, as his furrows became a bit <\/em>skewiff at the back of the field.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. aubade<\/strong> \u2014 song or poem in honor of the dawn<\/p>\n

His plans to serenade (of course, that is the wrong word) his sweetheart with a lovely <\/em>aubade at daybreak were devastated when he saw by the new-breaking sun’s light his rival descending furtively from her window.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. scamp<\/strong> \u2014 to perform in a slipshod or careless way <\/p>\n

And that trivial incident was the beginning of the end of his usefulness to the firm, as from that day on Pauley seemed to discard all his previously held habits of industriousness and high business ethics, becoming tardy and often absent altogether, taking ever longer breaks, <\/em>scamping his work whenever he could.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. rear-vassal<\/strong> \u2014 vassal of a vassal, feudal tenant of one who held his own fief from a greater lord or the king <\/p>\n

But these gains only applied to the great dukes and barons, and neither the villeins nor the <\/em>rear-vassals can have noticed much if any difference in their daily lives.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. dissipate<\/strong> \u2014 to disperse; to squander, to waste; to lose energy through conversion to heat<\/p>\n

By this point, however, the young lord had <\/em>dissipated his inheritance by his wastrel lifestyle, and most of the lands in question were already under lien or had been sold outright to his many creditors.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. scone<\/strong> \u2014 [Australian slang<\/em>] to hit on the head<\/p>\n

“Well, it’s not like I expected to be <\/em>sconed by my son’s English teacher, is it?”<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. Weltschmerz<\/strong> \u2014 world-weariness, sorrowful depression over the state of the world and one’s portion in life<\/p>\n

Then, like many a young lad before him, he cast aside the memories of his unhappy love affair, returned from his voyage to resume his duties at the bank, renounced his affected attitude of <\/em>Weltschmerz, and gave up his na\u00efve ideas of becoming a poet and got on with his life.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. lintel<\/strong> \u2014 horizontal beam across the top of a door or window<\/p>\n

There above the <\/em>lintel we saw the same red teardrop of wood that we’d seen in several other houses in this benighted village.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(Australian slang)<\/p>\n

dob<\/strong> \u2014 to inform on someone, to tell authorities of another’s wrongdoing; to be selected for an unwanted job<\/p>\n

Everyone knew Alice had <\/em>dobbed him in to the school because Cliff wouldn’t give her drugs anymore.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. erudite \u2014 having or showing lots of knowledge or learning But this sort of erudite reasoning is hardly to the point when we’re merely trying to decide where to build the outhouse.   2. gleeman \u2014 wandering singer (in medieval era) But the roles were not always thought of as separate in those times, … <\/p>\n

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