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1. advowson<\/strong> \u2014 [British<\/em>] right to nominate person to fill an vacant church benefice<\/p>\n

But the third Lord Ermley had never severed the <\/em>advowson from those land holdings, and thus confusion ensued when Mr. Symonds asserted ownership of the parcel alongside the banks of the river.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. prevent<\/strong> \u2014 [obsolete<\/em>] to come before, to precede<\/p>\n

The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death <\/em>prevented me.<\/em><\/p>\n

[Psalms 18:5 (KJV)]<\/p>\n

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3. sclerotic<\/strong> \u2014 of or pertaining to the morbid hardening of tissue<\/p>\n

The <\/em>sclerotic nature of bureaucracy meant that no waivers could not be issued without a hearing before this quite temporary board created over five decades ago.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. obliviscence<\/strong> \u2014 forgetfulness, an act of forgetting<\/p>\n

Though the professor stressed an agnostic attitude towards those things which we students had no knowledge of, and spoke strongly of nescience as an admirable state when one was truly ignorant, I’m afraid that we instead became partisans of <\/em>obliviscence, forgetting just those facts and natural laws he took such pains to inculcate into our obdurate minds.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. espalier<\/strong> \u2014 fruit-bearing tree or bush trained so that its branches form a flat surface, as against a wall or to form a hedge<\/p>\n

Unlike the wild topiary of the manor house, Mickelson’s <\/em>espaliers were designed to catch as much of the region’s rare sunlight as possible, so that his apples would have a longer growing season.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. flat<\/strong> \u2014 [obsolete<\/em>] fool, dullard<\/p>\n

Wise about money, perhaps, but the new parson was such a <\/em>flat about more elevated things that the wags of the town found it easy to convince him that the chapel was haunted.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. minced oath<\/strong> \u2014 euphemism for objectionable term or phrase formed by replacing taboo element with another word or expression<\/p>\n

After the baby was born he never engaged in baby talk, but he did start using <\/em>minced oaths in lieu of all his former expletives, even when away from his child, so we enjoyed hearing at work his exclamations of “Flibber-de jibber-de-jabbit!” when he caught his thumb in a drawer.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. palearctic<\/strong> \u2014 of the immense biogeographical region consisting of Europe, Asia north of the Himalayas, and North Africa <\/p>\n

These distinctive amphibians are found only in the <\/em>palearctic regions, though Australia has reported an invasive grouping discovered outside Sydney.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. rencontre<\/strong> \u2014 unexpected encounter<\/p>\n

We left the path and made our way through the grove to escape any unpleasant <\/em>rencontre with the locals who would inevitably have asked questions about our outrageous attire.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. cariostatic<\/strong> \u2014 having the property of preventing or halting production of dental caries (cavities)<\/p>\n

I was told that popcorn was a healthy <\/em>cariostatic snack, but then I got a kernel lodged deeply beneath my gum and ended up with a dentist’s bill far larger than I would have had for a few fillings.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. advowson \u2014 [British] right to nominate person to fill an vacant church benefice But the third Lord Ermley had never severed the advowson from those land holdings, and thus confusion ensued when Mr. Symonds asserted ownership of the parcel alongside the banks of the river.   2. prevent \u2014 [obsolete] to come before, to … <\/p>\n

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