Bowden Word of the Day
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Words to meditate on, quoted from the speeches and writings of the great orator Jonathan Bowden. "...raise them, and their level."
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EXEGESIS
Meaning:
• critical explanation or analysis
• exposition, explanation, especially a critical interpretation of a text or portion of scripture
JAUNTY
Meaning:
• having or expressing a buoyant or self-confident air
• sprightly, lively
• stylish
PRISMICALLY
Meaning:
• in the manner of a prism
• refracting light in a rainbow or as if through a prism
ASPERITY
Meaning:
• harshness of tone or manner
• harsh qualities or conditions
• a rough edge on a surface
MOTE
Meaning:
• a very small particle, as of floating dust
• anything proverbially small, a speck
PLASTINATE
Meaning:
• the preservation of body parts through a process that replaces water and fat with various enduring plastics
• first developed by Gunther von Hagens in 1977
• yielding specimens that can be touched, do not smell or decay, and even retain most properties of the original sample
LEAVEN
Meaning:
• to permeate and modify or transform something for the better
• an element, influence, or agent that works subtly to lighten, enliven, or modify a whole, as yeast leavens dough
CATALEPSY
Meaning:
• a neurological and psychiatric condition characterized by muscular rigidity, fixed posture, and reduced sensitivity to pain
UNALLOYED
Meaning:
• not in mixture with other metals
• unmixed, unqualified, pure
" unalloyed happiness "
