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1. mews<\/strong> \u2014 alley where stables are found; street with houses built from former stables or built to look like stables<\/p>\n

No other passerby were on the streets at that hour, and as the tattered waif limped into the dark <\/em>mews he looked about and behind in fear or resignation.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. burr<\/strong> \u2014 to speak with strongly rolled r’s, to make whirring sounds; to fashion a rough edge upon metal<\/p>\n

He <\/em>burred his words so strongly that at first I thought he was pretending to be Scottish, or possibly even Spanish.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. proximad<\/strong> \u2014 toward the center or point of attachment<\/p>\n

The colors of the wing feathers show a distinct change <\/em>proximad of this joint, and indeed Klipstein found them occurring in a separate row in specimens obtained from Pulzos Island.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. lambdacism<\/strong> \u2014 inability to properly pronounce the letter ‘l’; substitution of the letter ‘l’ for other sounds (such as ‘r’)<\/p>\n

The study confirmed a surprising lack of <\/em>lambdacism among these Guinean descendants, of particular interest because its prevalence in bozal Spanish.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. shallot<\/strong> \u2014 onion-like bulb used in food often in a similar manner<\/p>\n

Janey was known as the lady of <\/em>shallots because she hardly ever made a meal without some of those bulbs from her garden as an ingredient.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. Pleistocene<\/strong> \u2014 of or related to the geologic age beginning in the Quaternary period down to about 10,000 years ago<\/p>\n

Because scientists simply can’t keep their hands off of questions their betters thought settled once and for all, nowadays we start the <\/em>Pleistocene era much earlier\u20142.588 million years ago instead of 1.7 (notice the foolish precision?)\u2014and also end it ever so slightly earlier, 11,700 instead of simply 11,000 years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. contravene<\/strong> \u2014 to violate an order, law, or treaty; to conflict with an obligation or commitment<\/p>\n

This incident marks the fifth time this administration has <\/em>contravened its stated principle of providing these services to the poorest among the population.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. abjectly<\/strong> \u2014 shamefully, in a completely undignified manner<\/p>\n

I could not stand the sight of Mary prostrate at my knees, <\/em>abjectly begging for shelter for her and her children, so I stood up and left the room, telling Smithers to have her escorted from the estate.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. braggadocio<\/strong> \u2014 boastful speech, empty bragging<\/p>\n

Full of arrogance and <\/em>braggadocio, Jeremy descended upon the storied publishing house to drag it, as he said, “kicking and screaming into the 21st Century”.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. homograph<\/strong> \u2014 words spelled the same but with different etymology; words with identical spelling but different pronunciation<\/p>\n

They then descended into an friendly argument over whether a word that changed its pronunciation when capitalized was truly a <\/em>homograph or not.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(British idiom)<\/p>\n

drop a brick<\/strong> \u2014 to commit a faux pas, usu. in speech<\/p>\n

But I really <\/em>dropped a brick when I went into my habitual rant against gluten-free food, as Harmie cut me off and said, “My son has celiac disease.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. mews \u2014 alley where stables are found; street with houses built from former stables or built to look like stables No other passerby were on the streets at that hour, and as the tattered waif limped into the dark mews he looked about and behind in fear or resignation.   2. burr \u2014 to … <\/p>\n

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