Farmgirl Grammar

I have been learning new words for the past two weeks along with their meaning and uses. These are the words I have learned.

1.    ramose - Having many branches; The ramose or branched root is more frequent than any other.

 2.    idoneous - Appropriate; fit; suitable; As far as benefices are concerned no one could be more idoneous, fitting or suitable than Martin, since he is an Anglican clergyman.

3.    birr-  A whirring sound; She pursed her lips and, expertly, imitated the cricket's birr.

4.    bleb - A bubble; One day,  a bleb of shampoo  streamed into her eye.

5.    alate - Having wings; winged; ainly a few diehard physicists pointed out that wings are of no propulsive help in airless void, that alate flight is possible only where there are wind currents to lift and carry.

 6.    pillory - To expose to public derision, ridicule, or abuse;

Since Nixon, US Presidents had tended to be pilloried for misdemeanours.

7.    phthisis 1. A wasting away; Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis is there. Social phthisis is called misery.

8.    lodestar - Something that serves as a guide or on which the attention is fixed; It boasts a transportation system second to none amongst the great cities of the world, and it is, most significantly, the lodestar of Japanese culture in modern times.9.    traject -To transport, transmit, or transpose; I decided to drive close to the edge and see when using the front end of my car, then swinging out the back wheels, would it cause the rocks to traject in front of his car?10.  qualia - 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.11.   gangrel -1. A lanky, loose-jointed person; Patrick had a likeness to his father, but was still just a gangrel of a boy with long arms and a slouching posture

 12.  abrade - To wear off or down by scraping or rubbing; The cuff digs into Landsman's wrist, sharp enough to abrade the flesh.

13.  torrefy- To subject to fire or intense heat; A coffee-roaster answers for this purpose, taking care not to torrefy them too much, as the oil of the nut suffers thereby, and it becomes a dark brown or black, grows bitter, and spoils the colour of the chocolate.

14.  hector -  To intimidate or harass in a blustering way; to bully;

At both ends of the escalators, attendants . . . hector and berate any passenger who steps out of line.