{"id":4452,"date":"2024-02-23T11:07:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T19:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=4452"},"modified":"2024-03-01T09:02:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T17:02:38","slug":"friday-vocabulary-287","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=4452","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. polysemy<\/strong> \u2014 quality of word, sign, phrase, or concept having multiple (often similar) meanings<\/p>\n

Translation is made even more difficult, of course, by the ingrained <\/em>polysemy present in every human language\u2014with the possible exeception of some artificial, invented tongues.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. hymeneal<\/strong> \u2014 of marriage; of the hymen<\/p>\n

Not until he saw the overtaut muscles of the bride as she hurled her bouquet towards the gathered maidens did Mr. Robertson realize how overwhelmingly important to his formerly spinster cousin had been this grand <\/em>hymeneal performance.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. irriguous<\/strong> \u2014 [archaic<\/em>] well-watered<\/p>\n

From the moment he came through the final pass and beheld before him the lush green <\/em>irriguous valley he was decided that this was where he would make his home.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. impudically<\/strong> \u2014 immodestly<\/p>\n

He wandered out into the corridor dragging his IV pole with him, uncaring that his light hospital robe barely came down to his thighs and that his bottom was <\/em>impudically revealed behind him as strode angrily to the nurses’ station.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. canorous<\/strong> \u2014 musical, melodious, resonant<\/p>\n

As I sat on the stone bench in the box-like chamber I thought of Ron’s <\/em>canorous voice, and wondered again at how his poor impulse control had gotten me into this fix.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. tetany<\/strong> \u2014 medical condition characterized by involuntary muscular spasms<\/p>\n

But as I glanced back I caught upon her face a horrid almost devilish look of pure hate, as if some psychic <\/em>tetany had overwhelmed Georgette’s heretofore perfectly polite interest in my news and had revealed in its shuddering spasm the seething antipathy within her soul towards me and my fianc\u00e9e.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. hight<\/strong> \u2014 [archaic<\/em>] named, called<\/p>\n

“How be ye <\/em>hight, then, ye stranger whose arrival comes so timely?”<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. compend<\/strong> \u2014 summary, epitome, compendium<\/p>\n

But most important were the four handwritten <\/em>compends he had made of all the experiments and their results, with his notes outlining further ideas for future research.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. hassock<\/strong> \u2014 thick pillow usu. used for kneeling at prayer; cushion used as a seat, ottoman<\/p>\n

I found her in the sitting room, darning a worn spot in a <\/em>hassock for the vicar.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. lumme<\/strong> \u2014 [British<\/em>] expressing surprise<\/p>\n

“<\/em>Lumme, but you’re a cool customer,” he said as he slowly folded the knife and put it back in his jacket pocket.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(psychology)<\/p>\n

Electra complex<\/strong> \u2014 psychoanalytic concept in which a girl competes with her mother for possession of her father<\/p>\n

Plath herself confessed that her famous poem <\/em>Daddy is about a woman with an unresolved <\/em>Electra complex.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. polysemy \u2014 quality of word, sign, phrase, or concept having multiple (often similar) meanings Translation is made even more difficult, of course, by the ingrained polysemy present in every human language\u2014with the possible exeception of some artificial, invented tongues.   2. hymeneal \u2014 of marriage; of the hymen Not until he saw the overtaut … <\/p>\n

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