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Saturday, October 16, 2021

“In” words and other words

  • anaphora, noun. (Grammar) The use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition. (Rhetoric) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.
  • catacomb, noun. (usually catacombs) An underground cemetery, especially one consisting of tunnels and rooms with recesses dug out for coffins and tombs.
  • faux, adjective. Made in imitation; artificial; not genuine; fake or false.
  • homegoing, noun. A person’s death understood as a return to home; also, a service marking a person’s death.
  • immurement, noun. The act of entombing in a wall (sometimes as a method of execution).
  • inhumation, noun. The act or ceremony of putting a dead body in its final resting place (also, sepulture).
  • interment, noun. The burial of a corpse in a grave or tomb, typically with funeral rites.
  • inurnment, noun. The placement or burial in an urn, especially ashes after cremation.
  • investiture, noun. The action of formally investing a person with honors or rank; a ceremony at which honors or rank are formally conferred on a particular person.
  • in-coming, adjective. Coming in, arriving; commencement; succeeding (as an officeholder).
  • in-ground, adjective. Located in the ground;: not built above the ground (e.g. of an outdoor swimming-pool: built into the ground, as distinct from one placed above ground).
  • lambent, adjective. Dealing lightly and gracefully with a subject; brilliantly playful
  • niveous, adjective. Snowy, resembling snow; white and lustrous like snow.
  • ossuary, noun. A place or receptacle for the bones of the dead.
  • outgoing, adjective. Going out or away; departing; retiring from or relinquishing a place, position, or office.
  • panoplied, adjective. Clad completely in armor.
  • queue, noun. (mainly British) A line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed.
  • queuemanship, noun. The exercise of ploys and tactics in order to minimize time spent waiting in a queue.
  • redivivus, adjective. Brought back to life; come back to life, revived. Chiefly in figurative or literary use.
  • sepulcher (or sepulchre), noun. A small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.
  • vault, noun. A concrete or metal enclosure in the ground, into which the casket is lowered at burial.

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