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1. perissodactyl<\/strong> \u2014 ungulate with an odd number of toes, such as equids, tapirs, and rhinos<\/p>\n

I slunk back into the bushes and retreated across the wash to avoid the <\/em>perissodactyl and allowed a wide margin before returning to the path, hoping I’d left the rhino far behind.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. quadragesimal<\/strong> \u2014 of or related to Lent; of or related to a forty day period<\/p>\n

I was in the second week of my <\/em>quadragesimal fast from cheese when I noticed the odd discoloration upon my neck.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. menstruum<\/strong> \u2014 [obsolete<\/em>] menstrual discharge; solvent<\/p>\n

If the <\/em>menstruum has not enough alcohol its efficacy may be less and it may in fact not be strong enough to extract the alkaloids desired.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. skive<\/strong> \u2014 [UK informal<\/em>] to blow off, to shirk<\/p>\n

Bonager was a real prig, and had never <\/em>skived a single day at uni, and suddenly he was showing up late or not at all to the office, and then Skelton said he saw him in Soho in a flash car with a trull half his age.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. skivvy<\/strong> \u2014 scullion; tight-fitting long-sleeve T-shirt<\/p>\n

I looked at the kitchen <\/em>skivvy again, and though she’d always seemed an absolute dunce before, now that I knew that she was actually a journalist I pretended to myself that I could detect the hidden signs of a feral intelligence I had heretofore overlooked.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. skivvies<\/strong> \u2014 men’s underpants<\/p>\n

We stood there in the pouring rain dressed only in our <\/em>skivvies being screamed at by that Louisiana yokel and I wondered once again what fatal flaw in my character had ever allowed me to think this was a good idea.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. lovelock<\/strong> \u2014 long lock of hair, often braided, left apart from bulk of hair to lie over the heart, fashionable in 16th & 17th Centuries<\/p>\n

Of course the wild popularity of <\/em>lovelocks engendered the usual moral panic on the part of the church, especially as it was presumed to originate with hairstyles of the savage Indians of the New World.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. shail<\/strong> \u2014 to shuffle, to walk in an irregular stumbling manner; to drag the feet while walking<\/p>\n

Though fashionably dressed, the seeming gentleman was <\/em>shailing in the street like the worst drunken reprobate.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. stringhalt<\/strong> \u2014 sudden equine lameness in rear legs of various causes<\/p>\n

Fortunately the tenectomy completely resolved the residual <\/em>stringhalt remaining after the new diet had alleviated most of the symptoms observed in the gelding.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. postdictable<\/strong> \u2014 of or related to counterintuitive thing which makes sense after seen or experienced<\/p>\n

Thus this new economics holds that the <\/em>postdictable analysis of the Great Depression is merely a rebranding of the same nonsense which is operative in these rarified circles of financial religion before every great money crisis.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(UK slang, orig. WWII)<\/p>\n

go for a burton<\/strong> \u2014 to die; to be ruined or lost<\/p>\n

I gave him my word and a year later I learned he’d <\/em>gone for a burton and I asked for leave and packed my bags to take the train up to Scotland to see what could be done for my godson.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. perissodactyl \u2014 ungulate with an odd number of toes, such as equids, tapirs, and rhinos I slunk back into the bushes and retreated across the wash to avoid the perissodactyl and allowed a wide margin before returning to the path, hoping I’d left the rhino far behind.   2. quadragesimal \u2014 of or related … <\/p>\n

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