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1. bonhomous<\/strong> \u2014 cheerful, full of bonhomie <\/p>\n

But don’t let his <\/em>bonhomous front fool you, for inside that genial clumban lurks a cunning and devious mind, always set upon gaining profit and power by any means fair or foul.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. slewfoot<\/strong> (also sluefoot<\/strong>) \u2014 [slang<\/em>] detective, policeman; clumsy person<\/p>\n

“Ain’t gonna let no tinhorn <\/em>slewfoot tell me where I can eat or drink\u2014I does what I please!”<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. ogdoad<\/strong> \u2014 group of eight, octet<\/p>\n

Behind this Gang of Eight, the official <\/em>ogdoad, as it were, was a mysterious figure only identified as ‘Alpha’.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. strake<\/strong> \u2014 [nautical<\/em>] continuous line of planking from bow to stern in a ship’s hull<\/p>\n

The garboard <\/em>strakes are necessarily wider than most <\/em>strakes at ship’s end, and should be of the strongest wood available.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. analogon<\/strong> \u2014 analog, thing related by analogy to something else<\/p>\n

Preston took St. Paul’s <\/em>analogon of society as a human body to be ideally true, assuming to each member both needfulness and diversity in function, capability, and purpose.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. erotetic<\/strong> \u2014 of or pertaining to questions or questioning<\/p>\n

Focused on the <\/em>erotetic value of these explanations, Herr F\u00fcssbacher makes a strong case for the development of the early rites from the devastating experience of droughts in this region, though Professor Edelman reproves this notion as giving too little weight to religious and psychic impulses which may be difficult if not impossible for we moderns to comprehend.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. lummox<\/strong> \u2014 clumsy dummy<\/p>\n

“Just stand still, you big <\/em>lummox!” he growled, “If you break another one of her objects duh art we’ll be out on our ears for sure!”<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. concinnity<\/strong> \u2014 well-adapted and harmonious arrangement of parts (in musical work, in logical argument, etc.)<\/p>\n

But in <\/em>Lipstick Traces there is also a tremendous <\/em>concinnity of argument and exposition in his delineation of the connections between the punk rock of the late ’70s and the Dada movement born after World War I, a harmonious convergence of history and music and art which in his narrative builds to a formidable and resonant whole.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. amphigory<\/strong> \u2014 nonsense verse, meaningless writing<\/p>\n

Are these poems, then, windows into a deeper nature and understanding, as the Surrealists claimed, or merest <\/em>amphigory, a tremendous confidence trick played upon the literate public?<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. salutatorian<\/strong> \u2014 graduating high school student with second highest academic record<\/p>\n

Coxey always bragged of being the <\/em>salutatorian of his graduating class, but never mentioned that there were only forty students in the whole school that year, after that situation with the balloons of gin and the strange Swedish bus driver.<\/em><\/p>\n

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11. grosgrain<\/strong> \u2014 silk fabric having narrow ribs; ribbon made from such fabric<\/p>\n

One of the new <\/em>grosgrain berets will travel better, having no wire frame, and will keep you looking smart this season.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(Black 20th C. slang, sometimes derogatory and sometimes merely descriptive)<\/p>\n

ofay<\/strong> \u2014 white person<\/p>\n

The club was owned by some <\/em>ofay who installed a time clock by the back door and insisted the bartenders clock out every time they took a smoke break, and Freddy said he’d wanted to hook up the door lock to the clock until the Fire Marshal told him no.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. bonhomous \u2014 cheerful, full of bonhomie But don’t let his bonhomous front fool you, for inside that genial clumban lurks a cunning and devious mind, always set upon gaining profit and power by any means fair or foul.   2. slewfoot (also sluefoot) \u2014 [slang] detective, policeman; clumsy person “Ain’t gonna let no tinhorn … <\/p>\n

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