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Saturday, June 04, 2022

In other words, at the behest of abeyance

  • abeyance, noun. A state of temporary inactivity.
  • behest, noun. An authoritative order or an urgent prompting.
  • catena, noun. A chain or connected series, especially a connected series of texts written by early Christian theologians.
  • conjunction, noun. (Grammar) Any member of a small class of words distinguished in many languages by their function as connectors between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences (e.g. and, because, but, however).
  • contraction, noun. An act or instance of contracting; a shortened form of a word or group of words, with the omitted letters often replaced in written English by an apostrophe.
  • curatorium, noun. A group of curators (in various senses), typically acting as an advisory body.
  • descriptor, noun. A significant word or phrase used to categorize or describe text or other material, especially when indexing or in an information retrieval system.
  • digressive, adjective. (Esp. in Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement) Descriptor of Christians, churches, groups, etc. who deviate or turn aside from the truth; one who leaves the scriptural teachings of the church for new doctrines, new methods, etc.
  • fascicle, noun. A separately published installment of a book or other printed work.
  • fexting, noun. Conducting an argument or fuss via text message; fighting by text.
  • meme, noun. A cultural item in the form of an image, video, phrase, etc., that is spread via the internet and often altered in a creative or humorous way.
  • palimpsest, noun. A manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.
  • porcine, adjective. Of or relating to swine; resembling swine; hoggish; piggish.
  • quackster, noun. A quack; a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to skill, knowledge, or qualifications he or she does not possess; a charlatan.
  • scour, verb. To clean or brighten the surface of (something) by rubbing it hard, typically with an abrasive or detergent.
  • stunning and brave. An expression parodying social justice warriors who act as if they fear fierce backlash and ruination of their careers because of their stand, when they actually have the full support of almost everyone in their circles.
  • tween, noun. A youngster between 10 and 12 years of age, considered too old to be a child and too young to be a teenager. (Contraction of between.)
  • zyzzogeton, noun. A genus of large South American leafhoppers (family Cicadellidae) having the pronotum tuberculate and the front tibiae grooved. (Say what?)

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