Showing posts with label propinquity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label propinquity. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

WORD MAN: RAILLERY

I'm reading the novel The Cat Who Turn On and Off by Lilian Jackson Braun, and I came across the unfamiliar word raillery. It's a noun meaning good-humored teasing.

I just found supercilious, an adjective meaning behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others.

Next, I found convergent concominant strabismus, or esotropia. It is an eye misalignment where one or both eyes turn inward, often due to excessive convergence during focusing efforts.

I also found propinquity, which means the state of being close to someone or something; proximity.

Next came ineffable, which means too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.

Then there was eleemosynary foundation. Eleemosynary relates to a charity.

The writer mentioned that someone had an ORV. It stands for off-road recreational vehicle, a motor-driven machine that can travel on various natural terrains. 

Another one: A porte-cochère is a doorway or covered structure for vehicle passage to a building or courtyard. Learn about its history, examples, and distinction from a portico or carport.

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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

WORD MAN: PROPINQUITY

I just found the word PROPINQUITY in a novel. I always assumed it had something to do with sexuality, but I wasn't sure.

I was wrong, although not that far off. According to vocabulary.com, propinquity means "proximity or physical closeness." Your propinquity to someone in a conversation will affect whether you can smell his breath or not.

Of course, sexuality involves propinquity.

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(the book of great NASCAR stories)