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1. orthoepy<\/strong> \u2014 study of pronunciation; correct pronunciation<\/p>\n

No matter how many times he was told that pronouncing ‘Jacobean’ as if accented on the second syllable with a long ‘o’ was not correct <\/em>orthoepy, Yakov insisted upon mispronouncing it so, until it became a sort of proud talisman of error for the staunch Pynchonophile.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. haver<\/strong> \u2014 to be indecisive, to hem and haw; to natter, to chatter<\/p>\n

And worse even than his dull and lifeless hair was his <\/em>havering inconstancy, the fact that you couldn’t be sure he’d turn up when he said he would and that half the time he’d have trouble expressing pleasure at your company when he did.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. eo ipso<\/strong> \u2014 [Latin<\/em>] by that very fact, thereby<\/p>\n

Bringing Lacan up in casual conversation <\/em>eo ipso signals that the speaker is a very deep thinker, very deep indeed, and that others need do little save make small signs of wonder at the brilliance which it shall be their pleasure to endure.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. suasion<\/strong> \u2014 act of persuading or influencing<\/p>\n

One of the most important aspects of <\/em>suasion, as the ancient teachers of rhetoric emphasized, is to know your audience.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. morphew<\/strong> \u2014 mark or blemish on skin, esp. a blister caused by scurvy<\/p>\n

Most will not get near enough to smell her vile breath, warned off by her evil visage, the pustules and <\/em>morphews that cover her face and arms like Satan’s own spotted livery.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. chastise<\/strong> \u2014 to punish; to castigate, to criticize severely<\/p>\n

Though I felt <\/em>chastised enough by the sad look Mother gave me when I returned home, still I had to suffer through a painful hour with Papa as he ranted at me about the consequences of the foolish act I’d committed.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. cottar<\/strong> (also cotter<\/strong>) \u2014 [Scots<\/em>] peasant living in a cottage in exchange for service<\/p>\n

“He’s no more ambition than is right for a <\/em>cottar: to make straight furrows, to plant his seeds well, and to have a glass of ale at week’s end.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. conurbation<\/strong> \u2014 metropolis, large urban area formed from expansion of several cities into each other<\/p>\n

The cost of modernizing the railway throughout the <\/em>conurbation proved to be prohibitive, requiring as it did both a high tax burden and the wholesale destruction of large swathes of old communities.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. foremother<\/strong> \u2014 female ancestor; female predecessor<\/p>\n

One of the most important <\/em>foremothers of the women’s rights movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, died nearly two decades before the United States belatedly passed the 19th Amendment.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. stannary<\/strong> \u2014 [British<\/em>] of or related to tin mining <\/p>\n

Lewes found evidence to support his contrarian views in, of all places, the records of the Welsh <\/em>stannary courts, citing several cases from the late 18th Century.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. orthoepy \u2014 study of pronunciation; correct pronunciation No matter how many times he was told that pronouncing ‘Jacobean’ as if accented on the second syllable with a long ‘o’ was not correct orthoepy, Yakov insisted upon mispronouncing it so, until it became a sort of proud talisman of error for the staunch Pynchonophile.   … <\/p>\n

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