{"id":4739,"date":"2024-12-13T10:14:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T18:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=4739"},"modified":"2024-12-13T10:14:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T18:14:58","slug":"friday-vocabulary-324","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=4739","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. bludge<\/strong> \u2014 [Australian slang<\/em>] to shirk; to scrounge; to live off another’s earnings, esp. as a pimp<\/p>\n

It was the first time I’d ever <\/em>bludged school, so I was more nervous than I ever was after.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. chukka<\/strong> \u2014 period in game of polo, lasting from 7 to 7-1\/2 minutes of play<\/p>\n

While Larry was meeting with Harry I went back to the stands to catch a <\/em>chukka or two of the game.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. tractable<\/strong> \u2014 easily led or managed; malleable<\/p>\n

Perry was a <\/em>tractable sort of lad\u2014or so I thought at that time\u2014and thus I had no hesitation in asking the Chief to make him my number two on the Swanswell project.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. tenebrosity<\/strong> \u2014 darkness, gloominess, obscurity<\/p>\n

With the sunset, the shadows seemed to reach out from the very branches of the surrounding woods, as we felt ourselves bound in the sullen <\/em>tenebrosity of the forest.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. upas-tree<\/strong> \u2014 Javanese tree of myth so toxic that it killed all surrounding life at a large distance; tree of Java producing poisonous milky sap, used to empoison arrows<\/p>\n

The combination of the new mall and new bypass had devastated the once vibrant shopping district, leaving the shuttered storefronts near the old courthouse facing streets empty of all save dust, as if some baleful <\/em>upas-tree had killed the village itself along with its former marketplace.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. catasterize<\/strong> \u2014 (in mythology) to transform a creature or person into a star or other celestial object<\/p>\n

The strange myth of the wounded rainbow in the Thomas Covenant books brings a new look at the idea of a god losing his children, <\/em>catasterized by their curious exploration of the hole in the universe subsequently repaired by the father deity.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. fontange<\/strong> \u2014 high headdress formed of starched cotton and ribbons, worn by upper classes in 17th and 18th Century Europe<\/p>\n

The costly and increasingly ridiculous <\/em>fontanges of the court ladies could not be stopped even by order of King Louis, but finally were thrown aside because of the whimsically turning wheel of Fashion.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. gaud<\/strong> \u2014 showy bauble or trinket<\/p>\n

Prewston drew duty the day after the final parade, spending his shift sweeping up the cast-aside <\/em>gauds of the wild youth who’d drunkenly welcomed in the Mad King on the last day of his revels.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. stammtisch<\/strong> \u2014 [German<\/em>] usual table<\/p>\n

Soon we were regulars at the place, at least on Thursday nights, with our own <\/em>stammtisch in the back corner by the rear entrance.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. recrement<\/strong> \u2014 dross, waste matter<\/p>\n

Sprawled beneath the bed with my flashlight, I saw the missing piece in the far corner, amidst a pile of cat hair and nail clippings and other <\/em>recrements of Jonesie’s abysmal bachelor lifestyle.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. bludge \u2014 [Australian slang] to shirk; to scrounge; to live off another’s earnings, esp. as a pimp It was the first time I’d ever bludged school, so I was more nervous than I ever was after.   2. chukka \u2014 period in game of polo, lasting from 7 to 7-1\/2 minutes of play While … <\/p>\n

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