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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