1. cosmopolite \koz-MOP-uh-lyt\, noun:
1. One who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world;
a cosmopolitan person.
2. (Ecology) An organism found in most parts of the world.
At first, Audubon made comparatively little impression in
America, but he was an immediate success in Britain, where
he presented himself alternately as a rustic backwoodsman
and a sophisticated cosmopolite.
Behind the professional caution is a figure of storied
warmth and charm, an American-educated cosmopolite as
comfortable in the Midwest as in the Middle East. _________________________________________________________
Cosmopolite comes from Greek kosmopolites, from kosmos,
"world" + polites, "citizen," from polis, "city."
2. quagmire \KWAG-myr; KWOG-\, noun:
1. Soft, wet, miry land that shakes or yields under the feet.
2. A difficult or precarious position or situation; a
predicament.
. . . drenching rains that reduced all the roads to
quagmires.
Slowly, inevitably, over the course of several months, Don
Jaime's pupil draws him into a quagmire of plot and
counterplot. While the Nobel Prize in Literature, which he was awarded
in 1957, should have signaled the pinnacle of Camus's
career, it came at a time when he was struggling in the
deepening quagmire of the Algerian war.
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Quagmire is from quag, a dialectical variant of quake (from
Old English cwacian) + mire, from Old Norse myrr, "a swamp."
3. eldritch \EL-drich\, adjective:
Strange; unearthly; weird; eerie.
In the eldritch light of evening in Nevada's Black Rock
Desert, the eye plays tricks on the brain.
The immitigable mountains and their stark, eldritch trees;
coasts where earth abruptly snapped off, never to be
continued, or beaches which gnawed it to bright dust and
sucked it gently away....
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Eldritch perhaps derives from a Middle English word meaning
"fairyland," from Middle English elf, "elf" (from Old English
aelf) + riche, "kingdom" (from Old English rice).
4.indurate \IN-dur-it; -dyur-\, adjective:
Physically or morally hardened; unfeeling; stubborn.
\IN-dur-ayt; -dyur-\, transitive verb:
1. To make hard; to harden.
2. To harden against; to make hardy; to habituate.
3. To make hardened; to make callous or stubborn.
4. To establish; to fix firmly.
intransitive verb:
1. To grow hard; to harden.
2. To become established or fixed.
They are completely indurate. They aren't hard-nosed; they
live without any sense of malice. There is no time or need
for others.
First off, the avoid-terminal-prepositions rule is the
invention of one Fr. R. Lowth, an eighteenth-century
British preacher and indurate pedant who did things like
spend scores of pages arguing for hath over the trendy and
degenerate has.
New findings in science point toward a buoyant view of our
being: one in which life is favored, not improbable, and
the universe a welcoming place, not an indurate domain.
Only an exceptionally strong personality or a criminal
indurated by bitter experience can withstand prolonged,
skillful interrogation in silence.
The terrain he walked over still looked like sand, but the
sand was cemented together, firm as concrete. Indurated
soil.
But "hard cheeses indurate, soft cheeses collapse."
(Flaubert's Parrot). People don't change, they set in. _________________________________________________________
Indurate is derived from the past participle of Latin
indurare, from in-, intensive prefix + durare, "to harden,"
from durus, "hard."
5. slake \SLAYK\, transitive verb:
1. To satisfy; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.
2. To cause to lessen; to make less active or intense; to
moderate; as, slaking his anger.
3. To cause (as lime) to heat and crumble by treatment with
water.
intransitive verb:
To become slaked; to crumble or disintegrate, as lime.
My companions never drink pure water and the... beer
serves as much to slake their thirst as to fill their
stomachs and lubricate conversation.
She had the money he gave her (never enough to slake her
anxieties).\ _________________________________________________________
Slake comes from Middle English slaken, "to become or render
slack," hence "to abate," from Old English slacian, from slc,
"slack."
Hey i had this ready so posted it...from tommorrow it going to be post replies and try using it also..and others can help u judge whether the usage is correc to or not..:)
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