- anti-huff, noun. A food additive used in the manufacture of skimmed milk cheese, intended to act as a preservative or to prevent expansion of gas bubbles within the cheese.
- assignation, noun. The act of assigning; an appointment for a meeting, especially a tryst.
- bonhomous, adjective. Characterized by bonhomie or cheerful friendliness; genial, affable.
- casuistry, noun. Specious, deceptive, or oversubtle reasoning, especially in questions of morality; fallacious or dishonest application of general principles; the application of general ethical principles to particular cases of conscience or conduct.
- cento, noun. A literary work made up of quotations from other works.
- clerisy, noun. Learned persons as a class; literati; intelligentsia.
- cordial, noun. A strong, sweetened, aromatic drink; a stimulating medicine.
- creole (aka creole language), noun. A stable natural language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing into a new form to become a full-fledged native language of a speech community.
- facile princeps, noun. (Latin phrase) Easily the first or best; the acknowledged chief.
- feechie, adjective. Dirty, filthy; disgusting. Also (of weather), foul, rainy.
- insouciant, adjective. Marked by blithe unconcern; carefree; nonchalant.
- muso, noun. Diminutive of musician.
- palimpsest, noun. A manuscript, typically of papyrus or parchment, that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely scraped off or erased and often legible.
- parboil, verb. To cook partially by boiling for a brief period; to subject to intense, often uncomfortable heat.
- pidgin (aka pidgin language), noun. An auxiliary language or grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups of people that do not have a language in common.
- pother, noun. An uproar, commotion, or fuss.
- rhetorculist, noun. A mediocre orator.
- solace, noun. Comfort or consolation in a time of distress or sadness.
- thaumaturgy, noun. The performance of miracles: specifically, magic.
- tiffin, noun. Any light meal, especially lunch.
- transmarine, adjective. Crossing the sea; beyond or coming from across the sea.
“Ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein.” Caveat lector
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Thursday, June 22, 2023
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