argot (n) -- a specialized vocabulary or set of idioms used by a particular group
hookah (n) -- an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
loup garou (n) -- a werewolf
Cognitively polyphiloprogenitive walls of unscalable text; the fog-hidden, far overhead finial of some ancient ruined buttress's stone spire in a ghost city where the humidity sticks; a small boy with a crooked harp playing music to an assemblage of goats; infinitely several Russian dolls, internally solipsistic and inanimate; the causative jutting root of the fall into and out of: where, through, within which, beneath and beyond, some glimmering light fades opalescent in quiescence.
24 October 2014
13 October 2014
Vocab 10/13/14
cannular (adj.) -- of, relating to, or resembling a tube; tubular
chintzy (adj.) -- embarrassingly stingy
chintzy (adj.) -- embarrassingly stingy
11 October 2014
Vocab 10/11/14
glabrous (adj.) -- having no hairs, projections, or pubescence; smooth
glabrate (adj.) -- Botany almost glabrous or becoming glabrous with age or maturity
trochee (n) -- a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable, as in season, or of a long syllable followed by a short syllable
meter (n) -- the measured arrangement of words in poetry, as by accentual rhythm, syllabic quantity, or the number of syllables in a line
prosody (n) -- the study of the metrical structure of verse: the prosodic rhythm with which Martha would read the important disclaimers on the small plastic orange pill bottles at Lamron's bedside
glabrate (adj.) -- Botany almost glabrous or becoming glabrous with age or maturity
trochee (n) -- a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable, as in season, or of a long syllable followed by a short syllable
meter (n) -- the measured arrangement of words in poetry, as by accentual rhythm, syllabic quantity, or the number of syllables in a line
prosody (n) -- the study of the metrical structure of verse: the prosodic rhythm with which Martha would read the important disclaimers on the small plastic orange pill bottles at Lamron's bedside
09 October 2014
Vocab 10/9/14
sprachgefühl (n) -- a feeling for language; an ear for the idiomatically correct or appropriate
nudnik (n) -- an obtuse, boring, or bothersome person; a pest
obtuse (adj.) -- 1. lacking quickness of perception or intellect 2. not sharp, pointed, or acute in form; blunt
nudnik (n) -- an obtuse, boring, or bothersome person; a pest
obtuse (adj.) -- 1. lacking quickness of perception or intellect 2. not sharp, pointed, or acute in form; blunt
08 October 2014
Vocab 9/11/14 (PPFTF)
collude (v) -- to act together secretly to achieve a fraudulent, illegal, or deceitful purpose; conspire
Vocab 10/8/14
tincture (n) -- a coloring or dyeing substance; a pigment
ancillary (adj.) -- of secondary importance
ancillary (adj.) -- of secondary importance
07 October 2014
Vocab 10/7/14
lederhosen (n) -- leather shorts, often with suspenders, worn by men and boys, especially in Bavaria
phlox (n) -- any of various North American plants of the genus Phlox, having opposite leaves and flowers with a variously colored salverform corolla
salverform (adj.) -- of or relating to a gamopetalous corolla having a slender tube and an abruptly expanded limb, as in phlox
gamopetalous (adj.) -- having or characterizing a corolla with partially or wholly fused petals
corolla (n) -- the petals of a flower considered as a group or unit and usually of a color other than green; the inner whorl of theperianth
perianth (n) -- the outer envelope of a flower, consisting of either the calyx or the corolla, or both
calyx (n) -- the sepals of a flower considered as a group
sepal (n) -- one of the separate, usually green parts forming the calyx of a flower
06 October 2014
Vocab 10/6/14
bedaub (v) -- to smear all over with something thick, sticky, or dirty
kibitz (v) -- to look on and offer unwanted, usually meddlesome advice to others
pish (n/v) -- an imitated bird call used to attract birds; the act of using this call
clastic (adj.) -- breaking up into fragments or separate portions; dividing into parts
kibitz (v) -- to look on and offer unwanted, usually meddlesome advice to others
pish (n/v) -- an imitated bird call used to attract birds; the act of using this call
clastic (adj.) -- breaking up into fragments or separate portions; dividing into parts
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