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WORDS FOUND RECENTLY

Bevvy: an alcoholic drink.

Censorious: severely critical of others.

Doughty: brave and persistent: "his doughty spirit kept him going." Similar: fearless, dauntless, determined, resolute, indomitable.

Encyclical: a papal letter sent to all bishops of the Roman Catholic Church.

Lugubrious: looking or sounding sad and dismal: "his face looked even more lugubrious than usual."

Postprandial: during or relating to the period after dinner or lunch:

Prosody: the study of elements of speech, including intonation, stress, rhythm and loudness, that occur simultaneously with individual phonetic segments: vowels and consonants.

Serried: (of rows of people or things) standing close together. Similar: close-set, dense, tight, compact, massed, assembled.

Truculent: eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant.

Tureen: a deep covered dish from which soup is served.

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What is the meaning of the word MINARET?

I'm reading the Arthur C. Clarke novel The Hammer of God, and I just came across the word MINARETS.

A minaret is a slender tower, typically part of a mosque, with a balcony from which a muezzin calls Muslims to prayer.

Similar words: turret, spire, belfry, obelisk.

Next up is SELENOLOGY, the scientific study of the moon. The Artemis II folks are probably aware of that word.

Next: EUPHONIOUS. It means (of sound, especially speech) pleasing to the ear: "a stream of fine, euphonious phrases."

Similar: pleasant-sounding, sweet-sounding, mellow, mellifluous, dulcet.

I might have gone with sonorous.

Next: ENCYCLICAL, a papal letter sent to all bishops of the Roman Catholic Church.

Next: FRIABLE, easily crumbled or pulverized. As in the outer part of a "killer" asteroid.

Next: ANTIPODE. In geography, the antipode of any spot on Earth is the point on Earth's surface diametrically opposite to it.

MORE: Clarke writes that, in the far future, earth will have three billion people. Wow.

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