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More about umbrageous
Umbrageous has two main senses: 鈥渃reating or providing shade, shady鈥� and 鈥渁pt or likely to take offense.鈥� The word comes via French ombrageux 鈥渟hady; inclined to take offense,鈥� from Latin 耻尘产谤腻迟颈肠耻蝉 鈥�(of a person or an activity) living or performed in the shade, secluded, devoted to quiet, impractical pursuits.鈥� 鲍尘产谤腻迟颈肠耻蝉, a derivative adjective and noun of umbra 鈥渟hadow, shade, reflection, outline,鈥� does not have the senses 鈥渟hady, providing shade鈥� or 鈥渁pt or inclined to take offense,鈥� which are senses that English borrowed from 17th-century French. Umbrageous entered English in the second half of the 16th century.
how is umbrageous used?
… he was quite umbrageous, and his personality lent itself to confrontation.
Is it possible to spend time with friends whose company I do enjoy without incurring the wrath of the umbrageous?
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More about bunkum
Bunkum means 鈥渋nsincere talk by a politician鈥� and is an alteration of Buncombe, a county in North Carolina. Bunkum is an all-American word that fittingly enough derives from a debate in the U.S. House of Representatives during the 16th United States Congress (1819-21) during the House debate about the admission of Missouri as a state into the Union. This so-called 鈥淢issouri Question鈥� was extremely important, because it dealt with whether Missouri entered the Union as a Free State or Slave State. (Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Maine was admitted as a Free State, Missouri as a Slave State.) Just before the vote was called, Felix Walker (1753-1828), U.S Representative from North Carolina, began a long, tedious, irrelevant, dull, and exasperating speech. His House colleagues tried to shout him down, but Walker persisted, saying that he was obliged to say something for the newspapers back home to prove that he was doing his job: “I shall not be speaking to the House, but to Buncombe.”
how is bunkum used?
It’s bunkum to suppose we can be touched by tragedies other than our own.
According to the Mail worldview of recent years, dignified British ways are under attack, mauled by vain liberal cosmopolitans, crafty foreigners, and fashionable bunkum.
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aoristic
adjective
indefinite; indeterminate.
More about aoristic
Aoristic 鈥渋ndeterminate, undefined,鈥� comes from Greek 补辞谤颈蝉迟颈办贸蝉, a derivative of the verbal adjective 补贸谤颈蝉迟辞蝉 鈥渦nlimited, unbounded, indeterminate, debatable,鈥� which is a compound of the negative prefix a-, an– (from the same Proto-Indo-European source as un– in English and in– in Latin), and the verbal adjective 丑辞谤颈蝉迟贸蝉 鈥渄efinable (of words), delimited (of property or land).鈥� 贬辞谤颈蝉迟贸蝉 comes from the verb 丑辞谤铆锄别颈苍 鈥渢o divide, separate,鈥� whose present active masculine participle 丑辞谤铆锄艒苍 鈥渟eparating,鈥� when modifying the noun 办媒办濒辞蝉 鈥渃ircle鈥� (鈥渢he separating circle鈥�) refers to the (apparent) circle separating the land from the sea, the horizon. 贬辞谤铆锄艒苍 办媒办濒辞蝉 seems to be a coinage of Aristotle鈥檚; so it can be trusted. Aoristic entered English in the first half of the 19th century.
how is aoristic used?
Because Gideon is away indefinitely our lives seem bracketed in a kind of aoristic limbo where things happen haphazardly, without an ordered sequence.
She caught at the nerves like certain aoristic combinations in music, like tones of a stringed instrument swept by the wind, enticing, unseizable.
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