{"id":205,"date":"2017-12-18T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clairecount.com\/wp\/?p=205"},"modified":"2017-12-15T06:33:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T11:33:53","slug":"word-builder-december-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/clairecount.com\/wp\/2017\/12\/18\/word-builder-december-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Builder December 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

For some time I have been collecting interesting and unique words and phrases. Words that are new or seldom used that I run across in media or my research.\u00a0 Dawned on me others might be interested too. As I find them,\u00a0 I am posting them on my Twitter feed @ClaireCount.\u00a0 I will do a monthly post to\u00a0summarize the list.<\/p>\n

Excoriate<\/strong> – verb – to severely\u00a0criticize\u00a0 –<\/p>\n

The ABC boss excoriated his staff after the snafu over Michael Flynn error.\u00a0 This really jumped out as American headlines almost never use rich language.\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/12\/04\/media\/abc-news-president-brian-ross-<\/a>flynn-correction\/index.html<\/p>\n

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Ruth Wilson as Alice Morgan in BBC’s Luther<\/p><\/div>\n

Sympatico<\/strong> – noun – bonded, being of the same mind, in sync<\/p>\n

I had heard the word before but was surprised\u00a0it was a real world and not just jargon.\u00a0 On the same day, I heard it from a sociopath on BBC’s marvelous crime drama Luther<\/em>, which I highly recommend. Intense acting by Idris Elba.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.bbcamerica.com\/shows\/luther <\/a><\/p>\n

“Simpatico” was used on Mike Luckovich’s political cartoon on 12\/6\/2017 for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, which at some point will appear on gocomics.\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/comics\/political\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>I admire Mike Luckovich; He is a Pulitzer Prize winning\u00a0political cartoonists and often illustrates events in a way which makes you think about them differently.<\/p>\n

Agitprop<\/strong> – Noun – political propaganda often in art or literature<\/p>\n

Seen in the outstanding webcomic #Endtown by Aaron Neathery about a supremacist faction\u00a0 http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/endtown\/2017\/10\/27<\/p>\n

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Jugaad –\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0noun – from India- a hack or finagled solution – An untranslatable word for winging it<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/story\/20171213-jugaad-an-untranslatable-word-for-winging-it?ocid=ww.social.link.twitter via @BBC_Culture #amwriting #writerslife #vocabulary<\/p>\n

Patrimony<\/strong> – noun – derived from Latin word pater- father –\u00a0 originally meant inheritance from father now means heritage in general. A word you hear but did not quite mean what I thought it did.\u00a0 or according to Oxford Dictionary\u00a0 2)\u00a0historical meaning –\u00a0<\/span>The estate or property belonging by ancient endowment or right to a church or other institution.<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/style\/article\/raphael-paintings-vatican\/index.html #vocabulary #writerslife<\/p>\n

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