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1. foment<\/strong> \u2014 to incite, to encourage; to apply heat or ointment to (body part)<\/p>\n

After the splint has been removed, <\/em>foment the limb at least twice daily.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. mugfaker<\/strong> \u2014 [obsolete slang<\/em>] street photographer<\/p>\n

We contacted all the <\/em>mugfakers within three blocks of the boardwalk to see if they might have taken a portrait of the girl.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. hiemal<\/strong> (also hyemal<\/strong>) \u2014 of or related to winter<\/p>\n

His head was crowned with a <\/em>hiemal garland of holly leaves and pine boughs.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. egality<\/strong> \u2014 [archaic<\/em>] equality<\/p>\n

The <\/em>egality and fraternity of The Revolution quickly gave way to less and less liberty.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. illeism<\/strong> \u2014 referring to oneself in the third person<\/p>\n

Bob Dole is the obvious contemporary practitioner of <\/em>illeism, though the term derives from Julius Caesar’s various self-promoting histories.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. instancy<\/strong> \u2014 immediateness; urgency, insistent nature<\/p>\n

The <\/em>instancy of sensory experience, argued the Belgian philosopher, discounts the sort of ‘best guess’ approach offered as a counterexample by his rival at Leiden.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. subvention<\/strong> \u2014 grant of money for aid, support, or relief; honorarium paid to supposedly amateur athlete<\/p>\n

The Riksdag has for years paid <\/em>subventions directly to the parties, the amounts apportioned according to the number of seats held.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. clunch<\/strong> \u2014 pale limestone rock mixture (sometimes with chalk or clay) used as building material<\/p>\n

The normal range of <\/em>clunch houses is eastern England and Normandy, so it is quite unusual to find a building\u2014even a small outbuilding such as this one\u2014deep in the mountains of Wales.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. palliasse<\/strong> \u2014 mattress filled with straw<\/p>\n

The rude <\/em>palliasses laid near the feasthall hearth seemed the softest featherbeds after the last three nights in the rain upon the sharp sides of that flint mountain.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. sucket<\/strong> \u2014 sweet made from candied fruit<\/p>\n

“No one can beat your <\/em>sucket for delicious flavor, Mary Ann!” he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(slang originating with carnies)<\/p>\n

donniker<\/strong> (also donnicker<\/strong>) \u2014 outhouse, privy<\/p>\n

When last seen, Reinhard had been headed to the <\/em>donniker with an old issue of <\/em>Vanity Fair.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. foment \u2014 to incite, to encourage; to apply heat or ointment to (body part) After the splint has been removed, foment the limb at least twice daily.   2. mugfaker \u2014 [obsolete slang] street photographer We contacted all the mugfakers within three blocks of the boardwalk to see if they might have taken a … <\/p>\n

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