{"id":4886,"date":"2025-06-06T11:17:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T18:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=4886"},"modified":"2025-06-06T11:17:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T18:17:02","slug":"friday-vocabulary-348","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=4886","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. rising<\/strong> \u2014 [informal<\/em>] nearly, almost<\/p>\n

It was <\/em>rising two in the morning before we were all prepared, with Vince insisting on carrying his ridiculous stiletto unsheathed in his left hand.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. bulla<\/strong> \u2014 [biology<\/em>] blister, vesicle; [biology<\/em>] hollow spaces within bone structures; [historical<\/em>] clay balls or containers, often with external writing detailing contents; papal letters<\/p>\n

As fascinating as these votive <\/em>bullae seemed to be, the real prize turned out to be a <\/em>bulla found in Chamber 32 which turned out to contain a papyrus inventory of the entire garrison from the period just before the war with Anarkoreg.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. pay<\/strong> \u2014 to coat, cover, or caulk with tar or pitch<\/p>\n

While the ship was beached as the search parties went looking for trees for a new foremast, Higgins made sure the bottom was well <\/em>paid with the pitch he had found in the ship’s stores.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. umbra<\/strong> \u2014 shadow; fully dark shadow cast by object intervening between the surface and the light source; dark center of sunspot<\/p>\n

Longton will not be beneath the full <\/em>umbra, and so will only experience a partial eclipse.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. lacquer tree<\/strong> \u2014 tree producing resin used in making of coating for wood and other craft items<\/p>\n

A poisonous component is found within the sap of all three of these <\/em>lacquer trees found in China, Japan, and Southeast Asia.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. gozzle<\/strong> \u2014 throat, gullet<\/p>\n

Little Benji ate a honey candy so greedily that he didn’t take off the wrapper and it got stuck in his <\/em>gozzle and he liked to have died!<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. orthogonal<\/strong> \u2014 [mathematics<\/em>] perpendicular to, at right angles; of functions whose product has an integral equal to zero; irrelevant<\/p>\n

Not to get too far down this <\/em>orthogonal cul-de-sac in our conversation, but have you seen Ed’s new Alfa Romeo?<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. grate<\/strong> \u2014 [obsolete<\/em>] agreeable, pleasant, gratifying<\/p>\n

Though the chamber is small, the old feather bed heaped high with blankets and quilts is commodious enough and <\/em>grate to any traveler unless he be an inveterate ingrate.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. asker<\/strong> \u2014 [Welsh & English idiom<\/em>] newt<\/p>\n

You will no longer find these great crested newts within the Vale, but the <\/em>askers are still widespread throughout England, Wales, and Scotland, as well as most of northern Europe.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. brach<\/strong> \u2014 [archaic<\/em>] female hound; disgusting woman<\/p>\n

Laird Staines had left his favorite <\/em>brach behind for she’d just finished whelping the next generation of fine hunting hounds.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(church stuff)<\/p>\n

vicar<\/strong> \u2014 lesser or substitute priest (details vary between the various denominations; usu. a vicar does not receive the full stipend of a priest per se<\/em>)<\/p>\n

The <\/em>vicar came round to tea as usual, but failed to take a lemon square, so I knew that he was greatly troubled by the incident with Springer and the electric tractor.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. rising \u2014 [informal] nearly, almost It was rising two in the morning before we were all prepared, with Vince insisting on carrying his ridiculous stiletto unsheathed in his left hand.   2. bulla \u2014 [biology] blister, vesicle; [biology] hollow spaces within bone structures; [historical] clay balls or containers, often with external writing detailing contents; … <\/p>\n

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