esculent
\nadjective: fit to be eaten; edible.
\nnoun: a thing, especially a vegetable, which is fit to be eaten.<\/p>\n
from Latin esculentus, from esca \u2018food\u2019, from esse \u2018eat\u2019.<\/p>\n
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vitiate : spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of; destroy or impair the legal validity of<\/p>\n
Seen in the New York Times, in a column relating to this story.<\/p>\n
When President Donald Trump vitiated scientific facts on Thursday… <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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\nlixiviated (lixiviate) – Verb – To separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach.<\/p>\nPynchon – Mason & Dixon<\/p>\n
malapert – (archaic) A cheeky, impudent, or saucy person. [from 15th c.]<\/p>\n
ridotto – (historical) A public ball, typically a masquerade, popular in the 18th century.<\/p>\n
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Iatrogenic : To cause a problem as a consequence of a medical intervention.<\/p>\n
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Ark – is an archaic term for chest. While the source link that Wikipedia references is broken, I will accept this as fact from my experience with the King James Bible and Indiana Jones references to “The Ark of the Covenant.”<\/p>\n
Wain – is an archaic term for a type of farm wagon. So the last names of Wainwright, Cartwright, and Carter all have something in common.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
esculent adjective: fit to be eaten; edible. noun: a thing, especially a vegetable, which is fit to be eaten. from Latin esculentus, from esca \u2018food\u2019, from esse \u2018eat\u2019. ——————- vitiate : spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of; destroy or impair the legal validity of Seen in the New York Times, in a column … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,4604],"tags":[5221,5212,5219,5214,5215,5216,5217,5213,5218,5220],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-5597","6":"format-standard","7":"category-faits-divers","8":"category-thinking-about","9":"category-what-i-read","10":"post_tag-ark","11":"post_tag-esculent","12":"post_tag-iatrogenic","13":"post_tag-lixiviated","14":"post_tag-malapert","15":"post_tag-ridotto","16":"post_tag-some-words","17":"post_tag-vitiate","18":"post_tag-vocabulary","19":"post_tag-wain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5600,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions\/5600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}