Sunday 19 January 2020
Ab Vrbe Condita 2773
01/19/2020
Verso and Recto (nouns)
1. On a sheet of papyrus, that side in which the stalks run vertically is the verso; horizontally, the recto. 2. The even-numbered and odd-numbered pages, respectively, when you open a book.
Verso and Recto (nouns)
1. On a sheet of papyrus, that side in which the stalks run vertically is the verso; horizontally, the recto. 2. The even-numbered and odd-numbered pages, respectively, when you open a book.
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Touch word to see definition.
01/12/2020: Hortative (adjective) Tending to advise, encourange, or exhort
01/05/2020: Epexegesis (noun) The addition of extra words to clarify an explanation [e-pex-e-JEE-zis]
12/29/2019: Peridromophily (noun) The hobby of collecting train tickets or streetcar transfers
12/22/2019: Shirty (adjective) Irritable, ill-tempered. This derives from the idea that someone ready to quarrel is disheveled and has his or her shirt pulled out.
12/15/2019: Emmetropia (noun) Perfect distance vision, neither myopia (near-sightedness) nor hyperopia (far-sightness)
12/08/2019: Spanghew (verb) To cause a toad or frog to fly through the air
12/01/2019: Phillumeny (noun) The hobby of collecting matchbooks, matchboxes, and other related items
11/24/2019: Dextrosinistral (adjective) Right-to-left. The written forms of Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Maldivian, and certain west African Mande languages, for example, are dextrosinistral.
11/17/2019: Deliquesce (verb) For a solid, to liquify gradually by absorbing moisture from the air
11/10/2019: Illinium (noun) Based on experimental data later found to have been erroneous, a name honoring the University of Illinois proposed for the element now known as promethium. Two other preliminary names for it were florentium and cyclonium.
11/03/2019: Quaquaversal (adjective) Turning or dipping in any or every direction
10/27/2019: Frugivory (noun) The symbiotic relationship between fruit-eating birds and the fruiting plant itself whereby its seeds get dispersed
10/20/2019: Dephlogisticate (verb) To render something fireproof
10/13/2019: Parnel (noun) A priest’s mistress
10/06/2019: Fluviatile (adjective) Living in rivers
09/29/2019: Atopognosia (noun) The inability to tell where something is touching you
09/22/2019: Assoil (verb) To absolve, to pronounce Not Guilty
09/15/2019: Corncrake (noun) An elusive, omnivorous, chestnut-colored bird of the family Rallidae (rails) that ranges through Eurasia and winters in Africa
09/08/2019: Agonic (noun) The imaginary line, roughly longitudinal, where magnetic and true north lie in exactly the same direction. It wanders unpredictably, typically about 10 miles per year.
09/01/2019: Penniform (adjective) Feather-shaped
