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Architectural Components.

So today we take the liberty of swerving away from our mainstream synonym postings, and bring you a varied assortment of some possibly useful architectural terms. Each of these terms have an example that can be identified on our campus. See if you can point these out.

Cupola (noun)- A small dome atop a building, sometimes used for light or aeration.
He ran up the stairs to the balcony, swung off the wing of the gargoyle and landed on the stone cupola, refusing to come down.


Rotunda (noun) a small round building, sometimes attached to another building
The twisted politicians secretly met in the rotunda in the rose garden to plot the downfall of their libertarian opponents

Clerestory (noun) a raised section of roof in which short windows are placed.
She stood on her toes to reach the clerestory, desperate to catch a glimpse of the mysterious robber who had locked her in the attic.

Gable (noun) the pointed part of a wall that supports the peak of a sloped roof.
There was a small vine climbing up the gable of the country house.

Updates, no more words D: (for now)

Please take the time to test yourself by taking the quiz on the sidebar. You can look forward to some short competition style activities in the future in lieu of our daily vocabulary thing. We all admit, it's getting a bit tiresome, we can see it on your faces. So yes, bear with us, we'll figure something out more interesting.

A little Bit.

Modicum (noun) A small amount of something.
The bored students snuck out of Dillingham quietly in order to preserve the modicum of consciousness they had left.

Soupçon (noun) A tiny quantity of something.
He delicately spooned a soupçon of Hollandaise sauce onto the plate of food, hoping that the putrid smelling tidbits would taste a bit better.

Scintilla (noun) A small trace of a feeling or quality.
His evidence has not a scintilla of truth behind it!

Property

Demesne (historical noun)- the land of an estate
When she learned she had inherited a grand manor in Wales, she had no idea of the vastly stretching demesne with it's deep woodlands and glens.

Duchy (noun) the land belonging to the reign of a duke or duchess
The Grand Duchy of Luxenbourg is now an independent country.

Poor

Hardscrabble-(adjective) returning little for a great amount of effort, characteristic of poverty.
Reviving the hardscrabble slum neighborhood became the frivolous dream of the Bollywood millionaire

Penury-(noun) extreme poverty
She wanted to disprove the common belief that art majors in college are destined for a life of penury

Destitute- (adjective) without basic necessities of life
Even after dollar bills began to fall from the clouds, the drought stricken town still suffered.

Dictionary Fight

lo·gom·a·chy (noun) an argument concerning or using a great deal of complex words
The law school students broke into a noisy logomachy over the definitions provided by the defense attorney.

roots: Greek logomachia and machesthai, to fight

the title

compendium: a list or collection of various items

erudition: deep extensive learning

lexeme: a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language

Make oneself Uncomfortable

Ab·ne·gate- (verb) denial of comfort to oneself
The holy man slept on the floor, took only cold showers, and generally followed other practices of abnegation.

Other Forms:
abnegation (noun)

Talkative

Gar·ru·lous (adjective) given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative

The boy's garrulousness got on the hoary man's nerves so he transformed into a Man bear pig, and scared the boy away.

Other Forms
garrulously: adverb
garrulousness: noun


Vol•u•ble (adj)- characterized by ready or rapid speech

When the little boy was on a sugar high, his voluble speech was too fast to understand, so the crowd thought he was insane.

Other Forms
-volubility: noun
-volubleness: noun
-volubly: adverb

Synonyms for "Wordiness"

Logorrhea- (noun) a tendency to extreme wordiness
Other Forms:
Logorrheic (adj)
The amused teacher had a tendency of logorrhea in his lectures, which was really aimed at confusing the students.

Loquacity- (adj) talkative
The loquacious socialites gossiped over their tea and petit fours.

Prolix- (adj) using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy
She thought the epic poem was horribly prolix, and soon fell asleep at her desk

to get rid of

Abjure- (verb) to reject, renounce
To prove his coolness, the dean abjured the evil dress code of his wicked predecessor.

Repudiate- (verb) to refuse to accept or be associated with
Mr. Georgi repudiated his ties to the Marines after some embarrassing youtube videos were found on a commander's blog.

Flout- (verb) openly disregard
Rick Astley flouted the dress code on the Carnival weekend by wearing a skimpy bikini. The deans ignored it.