Thursday, January 27, 2005

=) here you go

  • clime: climate, the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time
  • milieu: a) an enviroment or setting |b) the social setting of a mental patient
  • palimpsest: a) a manuscript, typically of papyrus or parchment, that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely erased and often legible |b) an object, place, or area that reflects its history.
  • redolent: a) having or emitting a frangrance or odor |b) suggestive, reminiscent
  • epithet: a) a descrptive word or phrase |b) a defamatory or abusive word or phrase
  • thetic:a) beginning with, constituting, or relating to the thesis in prosody (which is the study of verse)|b) presented dogmatically; arbitrarily prescribed.
  • corpus: a) a large collection of writings of a specific kind or on a specific subject |b) collection of writings or recorded remarks used for linguistic analysis.
  • vacillate: a) to sway from one side to the other; oscillate |b) swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another
  • ephebe: a youth between 18-20 years of age in ancient Greece
  • transmuted: to change from one form, nature, substance, or state into another; transform
  • emanate: a)to come out from a source| b)to give out or emit
sorry it took so long... i was busy!

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