Showing posts with label avuncular. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 28, 2026

WORD MAN: Literati

WORDS FOUND RECENTLY

Apposite: highly pertinent or appropriate; apt.

Avuncular: kind and friendly towards a younger or less experienced person; relating to the relationship between men and the children of their siblings.

Bursary: A bursary is a monetary award made by any educational institution or funding authority to individuals or groups. It is usually awarded to enable a student to attend school, university, or college when they might not be able to otherwise.

Coterminous: having the same boundaries or extent in space, time, or meaning.

Diktat: an order or decree imposed by someone in power without popular consent.

Eclecticism: the practice of deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources.

Efficacy: the ability to produce a desired or intended result.

Literati: Intellectuals or those who love, read, and comment on literature - Intelligentsia, a status class of highly educated people who consciously shape society.

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

Ganja: Cannabis.

Nativism: the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.

Or: a return to or emphasis on indigenous customs, in opposition to outside influences.

Or: the theory that concepts, mental capacities, and mental structures are innate rather than acquired by learning.

Titivation: decoration.

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Friday, March 6, 2026

WORD MAN: MENDICANT

Learn English Words - MENDICANT - Meaning, Vocabulary with Pictures and Examples

I just found the word MENDICANT in the John D. McDonald novel Bright Orange for the Shroud.

Similar to mendicant: living by begging, begging, cadging, scrounging, sponging, mooching.

From the same novel, I found PEDANTICof or like a pedant: "many of the essays are long, dense, and too pedantic to hold great appeal."

Similar: scrupulous, precise, exact, perfectionist, precisionist, punctilious.

I'd seen the word ARROYO in Louis L'Amour books about the old west, and now I found it in a McGee novel. It's a steep-sided gully formed by the action of fast-flowing water in an arid or semi-arid region, found chiefly in the southwestern US.

Similar: gorge, abyss, canyon, ravine, gully, gulf, pass, crevasse, cleft.

McGee just used the word SILICOSISSilicosis is a lung disease caused by inhaling tiny crystalline particles of silicon dioxide (silica). Its symptoms are coughing, inflammation(swelling) and fibrosis (scarring).

McGee's newest word is AVUNCULAR. It means kind and friendly towards a younger or less experienced person. "He was avuncular, reassuring, and trustworthy."

Similar: paternal, fatherlike, protective, supportive, encouraging.

McGee mentioned COQUINA rock.

Coquina is a sedimentary rock that is composed either wholly or almost entirely of the transported, abraded, and mechanically sorted fragments of mollusks, trilobites, brachiopods, or other invertebrates. The term coquina comes from the Spanish word for "cockle" and "shellfish".

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