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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

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Anomie-absence of social norms and values, as in the case of uprooted people
Tristesse- melancholy
Frangible- fragile, frail
Spilth- refuse; trash
Chiarosco- deep variations in and subtle gradations of light and shade
Menhir- upright monumental stone standing either alone or with others
Puissance- power, might, or force
Ceremith-no definition
Tocsin-a bell used to sound an alarm
Sendaline- A type of thin silk cloth.
Formication- a tactile hallucination involving the belief that something is crawling on the body or under the skin
Lambent- softly bright or radiant, dealing lightly and gracefully with a subject; brilliantly playful: lambent wit, running or moving lightly over a surface: lambent tongues of flame
Augury- omen, token, or indication, divination
Crepuscular-twilight; dim; indistinct.Zoology-appearing or active in the twilight, as certain bats and insects.
ArĂȘte-a sharp rugged mountain ridge, produced by glaciation
Bricolage- 1 a construction made of whatever materials are at hand; something created from a variety of available things.2. (in literature) a piece created from diverse resources. 3. (in art) a piece of makeshift handiwork.4. the use of multiple, diverse research methods
Callipygian-Thomas Pynchon wrote in Gravity’s Rainbow: “Those dusky Afro-Scandinavian buttocks, which combine the callipygian rondure observed among the races of the Dark Continent with the taut and noble musculature of sturdy Olaf, our blond Northern cousin”.
Kerfuffle-commotion, disruption, disturbance, flutter, hoo-ha
Flibbertigibbet-a chattering or flighty, light-headed person
Vertiginous-whirling, spinning, causing vertigo
Pulchritude-beautiful, physical comeliness

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