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WORD OF THE DAY..........courtesy of Dictionary.com
ifyoucantfixit:
deflagrate \DEF-luh-greyt\, verb:
To burn, especially suddenly and violently.
Then the split second realization that something was very, very wrong, as the electricity rushed down the thin wires, sending a spark across a gap in the blasting cap, detonating the cap and sending the shock wave into the explosive charge, causing it to deflagrate at blinding speed, quicker than the mind could imagine.
-- John F. Mullins, Into the Treeline
Whereas Marcel finds disappointment in his return's incapacity to deflagrate, to 'flame up' his memory, Sassoon savours a kind of immediacy when he reaches the Rectory at Edingthorpe...
-- Robert Hemmings, Modern Nostalgia
Deflagrate is derived from the Latin root flagrāre meaning "to burn." The common prefix de- can denote intensity, as well as removal.
ifyoucantfixit:
qualia \KWAH-lee-uh\, noun:
1. A quality, as bitterness, regarded as an independent object.
2. A sense-datum or feeling having a distinctive quality.
He points out that our subjective experiences — our qualia — are the only thing each of us is really sure of, that all else is speculation.
-- Jenny McPhee, The Center of Things
Which in itself is quite strange, the idea that one could have an identical experience, down to the last detail, down to the internal qualia, the exact interior frame of mind, emotions, a frame of consciousness duplicated with startling exactitude, that would be unsettling enough.
-- Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Qualia comes from the Latin word quālis meaning "of what sort."
ifyoucantfixit:
Bildungsroman \BIL-doongz-roh-mahn\, noun:
A type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
Unlike David Copperfield, The Catcher in the Rye is no Bildungsroman, because the narrator/protagonist doesn't want to grow up.
-- John Sutherland and Stephen Fender, Love, Sex, Death & Words
With its emphasis squarely on the diversity and latitude of lived experiences, Night Travellers unambiguously demonstrates its unease with the rigid providential scenario that pervades this kind of political Bildungsroman.
-- Yunzhong Shu, Buglers on the Home Front
Bildungsroman stems from the German word of the same spelling. The word bildung means "formation," and the word roman means "book."
I would probably cite here. One of my most favorite of this genre. Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens. It is about as clear an example of this
genre as you could find. Plus there are many sundry other things in this mental tour de force. It shows all kinds of causes and results of personal
behaviors........I love it. Even if it is not his most famous work..
ifyoucantfixit:
integument \in-TEG-yuh-muhnt\, noun:
1. A natural covering, as a skin, shell, or rind.
2. Any covering, coating, enclosure, etc.
It seems to me that the process of adding an extra integument is unique to our species and easily understandable—we all want extra protection for our soft and vulnerable bodies.
-- William Boyd, Armadillo
The integuments which he wore in daytime were discarded and others were donned, of a kind which would serve but poorly to keep out the cold and to shed rain, sleet, or snow.
-- Frederick Philip Grove, Consider Her Ways
Integument stems from the Latin root tegumentum meaning "a covering." It is also the root of the dinosaur name stegosaurus.
ifyoucantfixit:
precipitancy \pri-SIP-i-tuhn-see\, noun:
1. Headlong or rash haste.
2. The quality or state of being precipitant.
3. Precipitancies, hasty or rash acts.
There is one thing I think it my duty to caution you against: the precipitancy with which young men frequently rush into matrimonial engagements, and by their thoughtlessness draw many a deserving woman into scenes of poverty and distress.
-- Susanna Rowson, Charlotte Temple
The police authorities have acted in this matter with undue precipitancy.
-- Joseph Smith Fletcher, Green Ink and Other Stories
Precipitancy comes from the Latin word praecipitāre meaning "to cast down headlong."
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