https://adamkhan.net I needed to look these up en adam@engaging.net Copyright 2016 2016-05-09T21:28:00+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/echolalia Oxford Languages ]]> COVID-19, Government, USA, 2021-02-15T11:19:00+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/pleonasm 2020-02-02T17:09:00+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/irrefragable 2020-02-02T17:07:00+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/gallimaufry gallimaufric variety and sheer strangeness of those ones on the other side of the barrier. —Teju Cole, "On the Blackness of the Panther" ]]> 2019-09-09T11:41:00+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/soigne Collins English Dictionary ]]> Billions pits Damian Lewis as Bobby Axelrod, a self-made billionaire, hedge-fund king and shark about town, against Paul Giamatti as Chuck Rhoades, the equally ruthless if far less soignee attorney general who has sworn to have Axelrod's scalp. —Mary McNamara, In 'Billions,' Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti are alpha males doing battle ]]> 2016-05-09T21:28:00+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/plangent plangent cries about the impossibility of rebelling against an aura that promotes and attenuates all rebellion says more about my residency inside that aura, my own lack of vision, than it does about any exhaustion of U.S. fiction's possibilities. —David Foster Wallace, E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction ]]> 2015-11-10T12:10:00+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/bienpensant Merriam-Webster ]]> 2015-11-10T11:29:00+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/uxorious 2015-11-09T23:47:00+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/spirant 2015-11-09T23:42:00+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/antinomy Television, 2015-11-09T23:39:00+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/anaclitic Media, Television, USA, 2015-11-09T23:36:00+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/otiose Media, Television, USA, 2015-11-09T22:59:00+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/alembic 2013-04-07T02:18:00+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/coterminous 2010-12-30T19:15:00+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/lacuna 2010-12-30T19:15:00+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/pellucid American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition ]]> 2010-01-23T23:32:03+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/suet New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition ]]> suety face beside him. The eyes were smiling and cold. The wet lips parted and whispered, 'Out, Limey, or your pal's cold turkey. My friend has a silencer. You and we're goin' for a ride.' —Ian Fleming, ??Diamonds are Forever?? ]]> 2009-02-22T01:10:38+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/lapidary New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition ]]> lapidary sentences all but trip from his tongue. —Bret Stephens, "Iran Is the Terrorist 'Mother Regime'":http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123275466964911679.html ]]> 2009-01-26T08:41:49+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/attenuate New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition ]]> attenuated from the search, rather than systemic error or reckless disregard of constitutional requirements, the exclusionary rule does not apply. —Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., "Herring v. United States":http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/08pdf/07-513.pdf ]]> 2009-01-15T15:12:17+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/eponymous New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition ]]> eponymous blog. —Khoi Vinh, "“Eye Magazine: I Braved Designer Scorn to Champion the Kings of Californian Airbrush”":http://www.subtraction.com/2009/01/12/the-kings-of-californian-airbrush ]]> 2009-01-13T09:20:49+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/mitre New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition ]]> mitred mountebanks robbed the poor box to provide Waitrose-style delicacies for themselves, their wives and their live-in boyfriends. —, "Prime Ministerial Decree No.35" ]]> 2009-01-08T02:35:48+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/endogamous Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary ]]> Religion, endogamous marriage; social clannishness; dietary taboos and other ritual means of keeping apart from one’s “Apollonian” hosts; “secret” languages, often created, as in the case of Yiddish, by introducing incomprehensible foreign vocabulary into the local, “Apollonian” tongue; high literacy rates (a necessary requirement for conducting commerce and keeping books); and “corporate kinship” arrangements, whereby family businesses expand by taking in relatives rather than employing strangers. —Hillel Halkin, "“Nomads: The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine”":http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article.asp?aid=12005075_1 ]]> 2005-12-28T17:46:07+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/interregnum New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition ]]> interregnum. 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The word "telic'' was chosen at random for security reasons, said a spokesman at Britain's Ministry of Defense. —, "“British Forces Use James Bond Code Names”":http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2523486,00.html ]]> 2003-04-02T02:30:40+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/ratiocinator American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition ]]> ratiocinators want to be seen luxuriating amid the difficulties, donning the jewels of nuance, even to the point of self-paralysis. —David Brooks, "“The Certainty Crisis”":http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/344hkcxs.asp ]]> 2003-03-11T03:04:37+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/oleaginous Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition ]]> oleaginous foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, addressed the Security Council after Powell. After some initial circumlocutions, the opacity of which could not conceal their offensiveness, de Villepin may have begun exercising the skill France has often honed since 1870 -- that of retreating, this time into incoherence. —George F. Will, "Disregarding the Deniers" ]]> 2003-02-06T10:19:33+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/noncomedogenic New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition ]]> noncomedogenic. —Judith Sims, "“Jojoba Oil”":http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/g2603/0004/2603000465/print.jhtml ]]> 2003-01-29T21:08:22+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/rubato Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary ]]> rubato, the kind of thing that Emma Thompson can do. She's lost. —Tedg of Virginia Beach, the entry on "The Importance of Being Earnest":http://us.imdb.com/Title?0278500 ]]> 2002-12-29T16:45:33+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/anodyne Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary ]]> anodyne version; decried the growing acceptability of euthanasia; and, most recently, argued strenuously against even basic research into human cloning. — ]]> 2002-12-24T22:56:00+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/hirsute Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary ]]> hirsute than Sean Connery's back hair dunked in a vat of Miracle-Gro. —Mark Steyn, "a review of Die Another Day":http://www.steynonline.com/index2.cfm?edit_id=26 ]]> 2002-12-02T14:48:00+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/squib Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary ]]> squib. —Tim Butcher, "“11m racism conference fails to impress host nation's poor”":http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/08/31/wrace131.xml ]]> 2002-11-13T22:54:30+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/nugatory Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary ]]> nugatory. Washington is the only game in town, and Washington is at war with terror. —Douglas Davis, "“Massacre of the truth”":http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-07-20&id=2071 ]]> 2002-11-13T14:46:56+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/ensorcell Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary ]]> ensorcelled by visions of a united Europe, in which they hope to play a leading role. —, "“Not So Mighty”":http://www.nationalreview.com/20may02/editorial052002a.asp ]]> 2002-11-13T14:18:45+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/tenebrous Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary ]]> tenebrous recesses of Stalinist rule, but as the first in that long series of atrocities leading to disillusionment with the Soviet Union and to breaks with the Communist party, Kronstadt -- in effect a workers' revolt against the putative workers' state -- became the portent of them all. —Norman Podhoretz, the "2002 Francis Boyer Lecture":http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.15208,filter.all/pub_detail.asp ]]> 2002-11-13T12:06:09+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/irenic Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary ]]> irenic as the extreme proponents of "democratic peace" like to argue, a China that governs its own peoples by force is more likely to try to impose its will on its neighbors. —Paul Wolfowitz ]]> 2002-11-13T12:01:37+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/aniconic Luciferous Logolepsy ]]> aniconic: It has no royal symbol, only an inscription. —Robert Deutsch, "“Lasting Impressions”":http://www.archaeological-center.com/articles/13.shtml#bulla5 ]]> 2002-11-02T22:49:58+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/gamelan Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary ]]> gamelan. —Bret Stephens, "“From Bandung to Bali”":http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1035430654555 ]]> 2002-10-25T21:47:09+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/tranch Investopedia.com ]]> tranches. —Bret Stephens, "“From Bandung to Bali”":http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1035430654555 ]]> 2002-10-25T15:15:24+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/mountebank Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary ]]> mountebank. —William F. Buckley, "“The War on Kissinger”":http://www.nationalreview.com/buckley/buckley101802.asp ]]> 2002-10-23T15:13:07+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/neuralgic Cambridge International Dictionary of English ]]> neuralgic in America's dealings with the world in the coming years. —Francis Fukuyama, "“U.S. vs. Them”":http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A352-2002Sep11.html ]]> 2002-09-12T15:07:04+00:00 https://adamkhan.net/words/tocsin Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary ]]> tocsin for war simply because it suits your own convenience? —William F. Buckley ]]> 2002-09-12T11:35:53+00:00