2007-04-27 higgledy-piggledy «I have that book. It is passing strange, lots of nice bits but all higgledy-piggledy. Made me wonder if this was a sign of a...
2007-07-27 internecine Sometime between the eighteenth century European visits to the Island and the mid nineteenth century all of the Moai that had been...
2007-07-28 lassitude On the darker side, the leadership has often experienced in its hybrid system the worst results of socialism (bureaucracy, lassitude, ...
vitiated Boolos was an authority on the 19th-century German mathematician and philosopher Gottlob Frege. Boolos proved a conjecture due to Crispin Wright (and...
augury The bog bodies seem consistently to have been members of the upper class: their fingernails are manicured and tests on hair protein routinely record...
2007-08-29 sortie He [Peter Vladimirov] also expressed frustration at not being allowed by the Chinese Communists to visit the frontline, although as a foreign...
whitewash The Japanese invasion of its neighbours is often glorified or whitewashed, and wartime atrocities, most notably the Nanjing Massacre, comfort women,...
rove Only my affectionate Wife, alarmed by my continued absence, had quitted her room and was roving up and down in the Hall, anxiously awaiting my return. ...
altercation In the 2000s, Crumb became increasingly ambivalent about continuing to contribute to new issues of Zap. By issue #14 he announced to the other...
wool-gathering For a minute, perhaps, my mind was wool-gathering. Time Machine, chapter 2, by H G Wells. http://xahlee.org/p/time_machine/tm-ch02.html ☄...
2007-09-18 plume You profess to see, whereas you see nothing but a Point! You plume yourself on inferring the existence of a Straight Line; but I can see ...
2007-09-22 abroad But I was troubled and made restless by my wife's absence and could not sleep, for although my eyes were closed, my mind and thoughts were...
strained The porter was so dazzled he could hardly believe that he heard her aright, but he shouldered his basket in hot haste, saying in himself, “O day of...
2007-09-26 heist ... in Fremont, California, burglars disarmed a security system and made off with more than $1.8 million of chips and computer equipment in a...
2007-10-18 purloin The penis of Napoleon was reportedly severed at his autopsy, and purloined: it was some years later sold to a urologist for $40,000. ...
2007-10-19 contumacious Thereupon she calls her winged son Cupid, mischievous enough in his own nature, and rouses and provokes him yet more by her complaints....
fledge The previous two posts by Barry Margolin and Kent M Pitman are really good paradigm. Good as paragon of stupid writings. Full fledged in all aspects....
2007-10-25 viand But man differs from other animals in one very important respect, and that is that he has some desires which are, so to speak, infinite, which...
2007-10-27 declivity The declivity was so small, that I walked near a mile before I got to the shore ... Gullivers Travels, part 1 chapter 1 (Jonathan Swift) ...
2007-10-29 carousing Now my cousin and I were sworn friends, for he ever entreated me with exceeding kindness. He killed for me the fattest sheep and strained ...
fecundity The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his...
diadem Noble patricians, patrons of my right, Defend the justice of my cause with arms; And, countrymen, my loving followers, Plead my successive title with...
stewardship By the time Netscape assumed stewardship, the Open Directory Project had about 100,000 URLs indexed with contributions from about 4500 editors. ...
ineptitude The Economist remarked on the news of the errors that “for someone of Mr Levitt's iconoclasm and ingenuity, technical ineptitude is a much graver...
pith On the subject of the Wooster brain, opinions seem to diverge somewhat. Considering that I am almost constantly occupied in pondering fruity schemes of...
vizier But at the end of the twentieth twelvemonth the elder King yearned for a sight of his younger brother and felt that he must look upon him once more. So...
bonobo But killing was the reason we were in Africa. Dale Peterson and I were exploring the deep origins of human violence, back to the time before our species...
gracile The Bonobo is more gracile (slight in form) than the Common Chimpanzee. Its head is smaller than that of the Common Chimpanzee with less prominent...
