Zj Flashcards
hirquitick
a young lustful teen girl
Nabokov’s Lolita is about a seductive hirquitick.
birl
log spinning by lumberjacks
castigate
to verbally flay
Remember Biliary Clinton castigating us as “a basket of deplorables”.
bilious
irritable and bad-tempered
Remember when Bilious-ary Clinton castigated us …the basket of deplorables.
anfractuous
twisting and turning
He would never forget the pelvicly anfractuous Mildred S. Bonk!
juridical
the administration of justice (not necessarily judges in courts = judicial)
The juridical posse strung up the cattle rustlers.
anabatic
driven upward by air
Experienced glider pilots use anabatic currents flowing up the sides of mountains and hills to stay aloft for over 2 days.
pareidolia
pare AY dohleeyah
the human tendency to see patterns in random things such as clouds
He attributes his superb pareidolia talents to his nephology class.
nephology
the study of clouds
Lying on the grass he practiced his nephology.
tautology
the needless repetition of an idea in words of a sentence
in logic a statement that is always true
The women at the Women’s Conference voted out all the men.
A mathematical axiom is by necessity a tautology.
latitudinarian
one who accepts wide ranging views, without tenets
Liberals used to be Latitudinarians. Now they are myopic bitches.
inscape
The unique essence of a thing, music or poem etc.
The inscape of the Kipling poem “If” always tears me up.
sardonically
adv mockingly amused or derisive
When the Priest was told him that he was a sinner, he smiled sardonically.
elucubrate
ee LOO cue brate
to produce a work after long and intensive effort
After college, I elucubrated for 12 years to become a Heart Surgeon.
torrefy
TAR if fay
to subject to intense heat or fire
You have to torrefy a grouper fillet to truly blacken it. Spice alone doesn’t cut it.
benighted
overcome in time by the darkness of profound ignorance
The benighted Seniors at Columbia university shouted “FREE PALESTINE”.
octoroon (vs quadroon)
one eighth black vs one fourth
Before his engagement to Judith, Bon was married to an octoroon with whom he also fathered a child. He lamely claimed that it was not a legitimate marriage because of the mixed heritage.
epicene
effeminate and weak
Once you see that epicene Lawyer with his two rat dogs being placed into car seats , you realize the world is going to shit.
Gleichschaltung
the 1933 evil Nazi coordation of dismantling / eliminating all political structures to their subjugation
The populace in 1984 underwent willingly the State’s Gleichshaltung.
objet d’art
small valuable artistic pieces
Fabrege Eggs are the quintessential objet d’arts.
federation
adj. federal
the union of states under a representative central government
Germany was a federation for the entire 19th Century.
essay
to make an effort to accomplish something
Sutpen essayed to become a Southern Aristocrat.
Lothario
a habitual seducer of women in Rowe’s 1703 novel The Fair Penitent
The credulous Debutante fell for the spring break Lothario.
dilatory
characterized by delay
The dilatory vedict of Trump’s NY criminal case was politically motivated to fall in September just before the Presidential Election.
farrago
fah-RAY-go
a gallimaufry or a confused mixture of things
I stood on the beach in Mumbai staring at the ineffable beauty of the Indian Ocean. I then turned to the North to view the human farrago of its 12 million inhabitants.
Charybdis and Scylla
to be caught in a dire conundrum
a mythical sea monster of Gaea and Poseidon that lived in the whirlpool off Sicily at the Strait of Messina, with the rocky shore of Scylla, Italy opposite it
After the debate between Biden and Trump the DNC was caught between Charybdis and Scylla as to who should be their Presidential Candidate.
crossed the Rubicon
to have made an irreversible and dire decision
With the patient on pump awaiting transplant we crossed the Rubicon and removed his heart.
It is ironic that Ceasar’s famous and gigantically significant statement “the die is cast” , that the pathetic Rubicon itself can practically be sloshed across in a single step.
(when he crossed the Rubicon River in NE Italy, near San Marino signifying exiting Cisalpine Gaul and entering Rome with his legions)
impertinent
rude and undecorous
Your question is impertinent. I will not deign a response.
