{"id":5234,"date":"2026-03-06T09:06:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=5234"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:29:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:29:58","slug":"friday-vocabulary-381","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=5234","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. septimanal<\/strong> \u2014 weekly; of or related to periods of seven days<\/p>\n

Truly you’ll find it no more difficult to write for the daily papers than for those <\/em>septimanal sheets you work for now.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. blinkard<\/strong> \u2014 [obsolete<\/em>] person with poor vision; idjut<\/p>\n

Perhaps I’ve been such a <\/em>blinkard as to overlook their nascent romance, but I can hardly fail to take action now that cognizance of the situation has been forced upon me.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. epos<\/strong> \u2014 epic<\/p>\n

The eldest Indian <\/em>eposes are found in the Vedic texts which may be reliably dated to at least 1500 BCE, though much within them is almost certainly even much older than that.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. thentofore<\/strong> \u2014 [obsolete<\/em>] until that time; before then<\/p>\n

The family had had no settled address <\/em>thentofore, but were never to move from this new mansion until the tragic events which followed the scandal of the missing pastries over a century later.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. besprent<\/strong> \u2014 [archaic<\/em>] besprinkled<\/p>\n

Just as in the poem the nursery floor was <\/em>besprent with blood, and nowhere could the babe be found.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. nun buoy<\/strong> \u2014 [nautical<\/em>] cone-shaped buoy (in fact, usu. a double cone with only the top cone visible)<\/p>\n

We found her green rope sweater atop a <\/em>nun buoy at the harbor entrance, but that was the only sign we had of Heather for the next three years.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. terraqueous<\/strong> \u2014 made up of land and water<\/p>\n

All ’round the <\/em>terraqueous globe the very air seemed hushed in anticipation.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. factotum<\/strong> \u2014 doer of all sorts of work, general handyman, odd-job worker<\/p>\n

Somehow I’d evolved from being just a paying tenant to being her all-around <\/em>factotum and jack of all trades, starting with ‘just a little’ gardening on the weekends, until now I had hardly any time of my own anymore.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. hirundine<\/strong> \u2014 swallow or martin<\/p>\n

I sighed in pleasure, listening to the songs of the <\/em>hirundines as they darted through the trees teasing each other in joyful ecstasy of flight.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. condole<\/strong> \u2014 to express sympathy<\/p>\n

We cannot help but <\/em>condole with you during this trying hour of loss, and pray you to remember that we stand ready to provide any assistance we can.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(British historical)<\/p>\n

potwaller<\/strong> \u2014 householder (person entitled to vote in borough elections by virtue of sufficient income to “keep their pot [of water] boiling”)<\/p>\n

The fifty-three ‘open boroughs’ of the time may be reasonably divided into those where so-called ‘<\/em>potwallers‘ had the franchise and the ‘scot-and-lot’ boroughs where the right to vote belonged to all who paid in full the local imposts.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. septimanal \u2014 weekly; of or related to periods of seven days Truly you’ll find it no more difficult to write for the daily papers than for those septimanal sheets you work for now.   2. blinkard \u2014 [obsolete] person with poor vision; idjut Perhaps I’ve been such a blinkard as to overlook their nascent … <\/p>\n

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