{"id":4545,"date":"2024-05-03T10:20:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T17:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=4545"},"modified":"2024-05-03T10:21:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T17:21:19","slug":"friday-vocabulary-296","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=4545","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. censor<\/strong> \u2014 to remove or suppress objectionable content from work to be published or promulgated<\/p>\n

Still, the easiest way for the occupying government to repress these renascent ideas of nationalism was to encourage these artists to <\/em>censor themselves, whether from fear of paperwork or of financial loss.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. sprezzatura<\/strong> \u2014 [Italian<\/em>] studied nonchalance, art of making quite difficult work seem effortless<\/p>\n

He tried just a smidge too hard to affect an air of <\/em>sprezzatura in his writing, but often this careful carelessness came off more as a disinclination to proofread his own work.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. dreck<\/strong> \u2014 useless stuff; garbage<\/p>\n

He wrote thousands of words every NaNoWriMo, but it was always just fifty thousand words of <\/em>dreck.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. ligyrophobia<\/strong> \u2014 fear of loud noises<\/p>\n

The doctors agreed that this was not a symptom of PTSD, that his <\/em>ligyrophobia had some other cause, given that he’d been a headbanger and metalhead up until last Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. tabouret<\/strong> (also taboret<\/strong>) \u2014 small stool<\/p>\n

He sat upon the pale pink leather <\/em>tabouret so as to be close to her, but found it impossible to rise for dinner later without making quite ungentlemanly contortions.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. orography<\/strong> \u2014 scientific study of mountains; mountain features of a region<\/p>\n

Of course, the <\/em>orography of an area will inluence its hydrography, though the converse is not always true.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. potter<\/strong> \u2014 [British<\/em>] to busy oneself in a desultory manner to little or no effect; to waste time<\/p>\n

When she had <\/em>pottered about with the index cards for a while, Alice might finally be able to think about the import of the secret she had learned that morning.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. avernal<\/strong> (also Avernian<\/strong>) \u2014 of or related to Lake Avernus, Italian lake famed for its noxious fumes and thought to be an entrance to Hell; hellish<\/p>\n

For days we made our weary way through the fetid swamp, until I feared that the <\/em>avernal fumes would leave me with permanent debility even after we should ever leave this pestilential quagmire.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. breasthook<\/strong> \u2014 [nautical<\/em>] shaped horizontal timber spanning the bow between decks of a ship<\/p>\n

The use of <\/em>breasthooks greatly increased the stability of His Majesty’s vessels, and of course provided support when ramming operations were required.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. unhouseled<\/strong> \u2014 [obsolete<\/em>] in the condition of not having received the Eucharist<\/p>\n

Is not such a foul deed, assassination in the dark, leaving the victim unshriven and <\/em>unhouseled, is not this the worst of crimes?<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. censor \u2014 to remove or suppress objectionable content from work to be published or promulgated Still, the easiest way for the occupying government to repress these renascent ideas of nationalism was to encourage these artists to censor themselves, whether from fear of paperwork or of financial loss.   2. sprezzatura \u2014 [Italian] studied nonchalance, … <\/p>\n

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