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Word of the Week: fulminate (FŎŎL-mə-nāt)

Stephanie Whetstone2021-11-15T11:35:11-05:00

Word of the Week: fulminate (FŎŎL-mə-nāt) Definition (Verb) Of the pope, etc.: To issue censures or condemnations (against); generally to "thunder," inveigh violently against. In Context "By the early 1930s, watching defenders of Prohibition fulminate about the demon rum in the sound newsreels, thirsty moviegoers jeered and hissed." Thomas Doherty, Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration, 2007.

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Word of the Week: quotidian (kwō-TĬD-ē-ən)

Stephanie Whetstone2021-11-15T11:32:29-05:00

Word of the Week: quotidian (kwō-TĬD-ē-ən) Definition (Adjective) Of an everyday character; commonplace, mundane, ordinary. In Context "These are the solid, obvious, sharply outlined, in-the-way things of quotidian experience: the walls that obstruct, the rain that falls, the projectile that hits, the stone that stubs." Lorraine Daston, Editor, Biographies of Scientific Objects, 2000.

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Word of the Week: instauration (in-staw-RAY-shun)

Stephanie Whetstone2021-11-15T11:36:13-05:00

Word of the Week: instauration (in-staw-RAY-shun) Definition (Noun) 1. restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation 2. an act of instituting or establishing something In Context "Once, humanity dreamed of the great instauration—a rebirth of ancient wisdom that would compel us into a New Age…." Knute Berger, Seattle Weekly, 14 Dec. 2005

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Word of the Week: bamboozle (băm-BŌŌ-zəl)

Stephanie Whetstone2021-11-11T11:27:43-05:00

Word of the Week: bamboozle (băm-BŌŌ-zəl) Definition (Verb) To deceive by trickery, hoax, cozen, impose upon. In Context "No statesman, however old, eminent, selfish, or resourceful, was able for long to bamboozle or bedazzle his equally famous, and equally adroit, colleagues; only Bismarck, and perhaps Beaconsfield during the first fortnight, succeeded in establishing over the other delegates something of the personal ascendancy that they enjoyed in their own cabinets." W. N. Medlicott, The Congress of Berlin and After: A Diplomatic History of the Near Eastern Settlement, 1878-1880, Second Edition, 1963.

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Word of the Week: gonfalon (GŎN-fə-lŏn)

Stephanie Whetstone2021-11-11T11:25:26-05:00

Word of the Week: gonfalon (GŎN-fə-lŏn) Definition (Noun) A banner or ensign, frequently composed of or ending in several tails or streamers, suspended from a cross-bar instead of being directly fastened to the pole, especially as used by various Italian republics or in ecclesiastical processions. In Context "At a critical moment the brave old sea-dog was seen erect in his armour on the prow of his galley, the gonfalon of St. Mark unfurled before him." Thomas Okey, The Story of Venice, 1905.

Word of the Week: gonfalon (GŎN-fə-lŏn)Stephanie Whetstone2021-11-11T11:25:26-05:00

Word of the Week: ductility (dŭk-TĬL-ĭ-tē)

Stephanie Whetstone2021-11-08T14:50:32-05:00

Word of the Week: ductility (dŭk-TĬL-ĭ-tē) Definition (Noun) Capability of being easily led or influenced; tractableness, docility. In Context "Bingley was endeared to Darcy by the easiness, openness, ductility of his temper, though no disposition could offer a greater contrast to his own, and though with his own he never appeared dissatisfied." Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice, 1813.

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Word of the Week: frowzy (FROU-zē)

Stephanie Whetstone2021-11-08T14:23:29-05:00

Word of the Week: frowzy (FROU-zē) Definition (Adjective) Ill-smelling, fusty, musty; having a "close" unpleasant smell from being dirty, unwashed, ill-ventilated, or the like. In Context "Those London lodgings, -- I should have to live in lodgings in London, poor lodgings, because they are cheap and I am cheap, -- frowzy lodgings, savored with frying, garnished at intervals with a slatternly landlady and a little slavey." "The Contributors' Club," The Atlantic Monthly, March 1904.

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Word of the Week: jackanapes (JĂK-ə-nāps)

Stephanie Whetstone2021-11-08T14:35:39-05:00

Word of the Week: jackanapes (JĂK-ə-nāps) Definition (Noun) One who is like an ape in tricks, airs, or behavior; a ridiculous upstart; a pert, impertinent fellow, who assumes ridiculous airs; a coxcomb. Also, playfully, a pert forward child, a "monkey." In Context "'God, what's the Navy coming to, when warrants are given to young jackanapes who couldn't keep their noses clear with a marlin-spike!'" C. S. Forester, Commodore Hornblower, 1945.

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Word of the Week: reify (RÉ-ə-fī)

Stephanie Whetstone2021-11-08T14:15:25-05:00

Word of the Week: reify (RÉ-ə-fī) Definition (Verb) To make (something abstract) more concrete or real; to regard or treat (an idea, concept, etc.) as if having material existence. In Context "One should not reify the concept of family or the generalizations about families to the extent that they become 'the family' in a particular culture or society." Charles B. Hennon and Stephan M. Wilson, Editors, Families in a Global Context, 2008.

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Word of the Week: chauvinism (SHŌ-və-nĭz-əm)

Stephanie Whetstone2021-10-12T12:19:35-04:00

Word of the Week: chauvinism (SHŌ-və-nĭz-əm) Definition (Noun) Exaggerated patriotism of a bellicose sort; blind enthusiasm for national glory or military ascendancy; the French quality which finds its parallel in British "Jingoism." In Context "The fires of antiforeign chauvinism, long fanned by the bureaucracy, were raging." Patrick Smith, Japan: A Reinterpretation, 1997.

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