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'''payloaders''' 
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]

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'''c'etait la guerre'''

It was war.

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'''agnate''' 
paternal, related on the father's side 

'''Samizdat''' 
From the Russian verb "to publish on one's own" or "to self-publish." Originally used to denote underground publications in the Soviet Union, now used more generally for dissident activity[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat]

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'''stenographer-cum-''jeune-fille-de-Vendredi''''' 
secretary who takes diction AND devoted assistant. ''Jeune-fille-de-Vendredi'' is French for "young girl Friday." "Man Friday" (or "girl Friday") is a term that means a very competant and loyal servant or assistant, and originates from the Friday of ''Robinson Crusoe''.

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=Feral Hamsters=

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'''Champaign IL''' 
He probably attends the [http://www.uiuc.edu/ University of Illinois] main campus.

'''Ward and June''' 
The mother and father's names on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_To_Beaver Leave It to Beaver]

'''pedalferrous''' 
apparently a neologism, the word would mean "of or pertaining to foot metal," i.e., fast driving

'''fulvous''' 
in color, yellow-gray to yellowish-brown

'''teratogenic''' 
having an ill effect on the development of a fetus

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''''''n sûr''''' 
An elision of ''bien sûr'', French for "of course"

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'''Sterling UL35 9 mm machine pistol with Mag Na Port silencer''' 
Sterling is a real British gun manufacturer and [http://www.oegmag.com/Magnaport.asp Mag-Na-Port] is real also, but this particular gun model is apparently made-up.

'''Charleston''' 
a dance popular in the 1920s

'''mesquite''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite mesquite] plant

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=YDAU - ETA Locker Room=

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'''Barbicide''' 
a brand name of disinfectant used for combs and hairbrushes

'''Tolstoy's sentence''' 
The question probably referred to the opening lines of Leo Tolstoy's ''Anna Karenina:'' "HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

'''No cathode gun. No phosphenic screen.''' 
A cathode gun is an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_gun electron gun] used in a cathode ray tube. "Phosphenic" refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene phosphenes].

'''UHF''' 
Ultra High Frequency

'''acutance''' 
the edge contrast of an image

'''Michael Pemulis, ..., clear his throat deeply''' 
this grammatical error appears shortly after a discussion of a class on grammar

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'''halation''' 
blurring of a visual image by glare

'''quiescent''' 
still or at rest

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'''digitate''' 
having fingers

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'''Zoltan''' 
Zoltán was a 10th century ruler of Hungary.

'''Csikzentmihalyi''' 
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (''sic'') is a psychologist best known for his concept of "flow", a psychological state where one "is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity", e.g. "being in the zone" while playing sports.

'''Idris Arslanian, new this year, ethnically vague''' 
Idris is an Arabic name, corresponding in the Qur'an to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch%2C_ancestor_of_Noah Enoch] in the Bible. The last name Arslanian sounds Armenian, though ''Arslan'' is a Turkish word for "lion."

'''R.A.''' 
Resident Assistant

'''Tex Watson''' 
Besides a character in ''Infinite Jest,'' Tex Watson was the nickname of Charles Watson, one of the chief murderers in the Charles Manson Family.

'''ephebes''' 
An ephebe is an adolescent male.

'''suppliants''' 
A suppliant is a petitioner.

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'''sienna''' 
yellowish- to reddish-brown

'''louvered''' 
with angled slats

'''thoracic''' 
having to do with the chest

'''atavistically''' 
Atavism means reversion to an earlier evolutionary type.

'''piebald''' 
having patches of different colors

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'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

'''inflation-generative grammar''' 
i.e. a set of rules to generates phrases of increasing emphasis

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'''semion''' 
A semion is technically part of an anyon, the latter of which is defined in the ''OED'' as "a particle having characteristics intermediate between those of fermions and bosons in two-dimensional space." However, it seems Wallace uses the word as a form closer to "semiotics." A later search reveals that ''semion'' is Greek for "sign."

'''Umbrian''' 
From the Italian ''reggione'' of Umbria, in central Italy. Hal is Italian on his father's side, as well as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pima Pima] Native American. His mother, of course, is French-Canadian.

'''Brylcreemed''' 
Used as a verb here, Brylcreem was a brand name of men's hair grooming product.

'''zygomatics''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomatics zygomatic bones] of the face

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'''haul ashes''' 
For a history of this term, click [http://www.wordwizard.com/ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6859 here].

'''Johnny Mathis's "Chances Are"''' 
listen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEH3uqbpsm8 here] 

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'''Luther's 16th-century shoes, awaiting epiphany''' 
Martin Luther (1483-1546), German father of the Reformation, was a notorious sufferer of constipation.

'''hobnailed boots''' 
boots assembled with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobnail hobnails]

==Endnote 43==

The disease is named for Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American gastroenterologist.

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'''carminative''' 
antispasmodic

'''gout''' 
a disease characterized by the collection of uric acid in the joints

'''Port Washington''' 
There are three cities by this name in the U.S.: In New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.

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'''woppsed up''' 
a created word, apparently something like "wadded up"

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'''Tristan and Isolde''' 
star-crossed lovers from Arthurian myth

'''Lancelot and what's-her-name''' 
Guinevere

'''Agamemnon and Helen''' 
Steeply has this one wrong.

'''Dante and Beatrice''' 
Beatrice is Dante's guide through heaven in the third part of the ''Divine Comedy'', ''Paradiso''

'''Narcissus and Echo''' 
The story of these doomed lovers from Greek mythology is [http://thanasis.com/echo.htm here].

'''Kierkegaard and Regina''' 
Regina Olsen was the short-term fiancée of Kierkegaard.

'''Kafka and that poor girl afraid to go the postbox for the mail''' 
The story being referred to can be read [http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?what=KafkaDoll here].

'''Menelaus was husband, him of Sparta''' 
Menelaus, King of Sparta, was the husband of Helen. Agamemnon was the King of Argos and Menelaus's brother.

'''Helen and Paris. He of Troy.''' 
Paris, a Trojan prince, kidnapped Helen from Menelaus, precipitating the Trojan War.

'''The horse: the gift which was not a gift''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse Trojan horse]

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'''electrolysistic''' 
resulting from electrolysis, the removal of hair using electric shocks

'''sangfroid''' 
From French for "cold blood," this word means "coolness."

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'''creosote''' 
There are several types of creosote, described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote here].

'''Crepuscular''' 
active in the twilight, as bats

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==Endnote 304==

[[Notes_and_Errata_-_Pages_983-1079#Endnote_304_.C2.B7_The_Train_Game|Notes and Errata - Endnote 304]]

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'''gibbous''' 
the shape of the moon when it is neither full, nor crescent, nor half, i.e., when it is more than half full

'''Quonsets''' 
short form for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Quonset huts]

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'''Stan Smith''' 
Born in 1946, Smith is a retired professional tennis player, having won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open once each.

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

==Endnote 46==

'''corticatization''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=corticalization&action=Search+OMD corticalization]

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'''E.N.T. oncologist''' 
ear, nose, and throat; an oncologist is a cancer physician

'''violas''' 
A viola is a like a violin, only slightly larger and deeper in tone.

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'''''E Unibus Pluram''''' 
A Latin pun on ''E pluribus unum'' ("From many, one"), the U.S. motto. This would mean "From one, many." Note that the correct Latin would be something like ''Ex uno plures'' or ''Ex uno plura'' (depending on what "many" is meant to refer to).

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'''Solipsism''' 
a kind of narcissism based on the idea that one's own mind is all one can ever truly know

'''''ballet de se''''' 

French: Ballet of (itself)

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'''plateaux''' 
the proper French plural of "plateau," rather than "plateaus"

'''slog''' 
to drive with blows

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'''Banzai!''' 
a Japanese battle cry

'''hangdog''' 
browbeaten or intimidated

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'''croupiers''' 
attendants at gambling casinos

'''plasticene''' 
misspelling of Plasticine, a brand name of plastic used for making molds

'''ancipitals''' 
double-edged

'''accretive''' 
of or pertaining to the process of natural growth

'''autonomical''' 
of or pertaining to the reflexive nervous system

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'''machine-language''' 
a coding system for computers that requires no compiling before running

'''Orinda CA''' 
A small, wealthy city in Conta Costa County, immediately east of the Oakland-Berkeley metro area and about 18 miles northeast of San Francisco

'''me droogies''' 
Struck is speaking in Nadsat, the language of Anthony Burgess's novel ''A Clockwork Orange'', which is based on Russian. ''Droogies'' is Nadsat for "friends."

'''kertwanging''' 
from context, this would seem to be a thrashing (at tennis), particularly hitting the ball at your opponent

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'''Mein kinder''' 
German: "My children". But wrong grammar! "Mein" is singular, "kinder" is plural. "My children" would be "Meine Kinder"

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'''Wagenknecht''' 
sort of a formal German word for "chauffeur." [No, as native speaker, I do not agree. It is a quite family name, meaning something like "cart worker", but nobody would call a chauffeur that way!]

'''guilloche''' 
This is "an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''A la contraire''' 
A French mistake: Should be ''au contraire'' (masculine)

'''gingival mound''' 
mound of gum tissue

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'''aperçu''' 
an insight

=Mario Incandenza's romantic experience=
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'''two hundred kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Southpaw''' 
left-handed

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'''doffed''' 
doff is to take off or tip in salutation (don off)

'''coiffure''' 
hairdo

'''osseously''' 
Osseous means "bone-like."

'''reticulate''' 
netted

'''chill dusk''' 
George Eliot (born Mary Anne Evans; 1819-1880), the British novelist, uses the expression in her novel [http://www.fullbooks.com/Adam-Bede.html Adam Bede].

'''easement''' 
Literally meaning the use of something legally not one's own, here it's used to mean a new path beaten through a thicket.

'''kliegs''' 
short form for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klieg Klieg light]

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'''Betty Stove''' 
Betty Stöve (born 1945) is a Dutch former professional tennis player and winner of ten Grand Slam titles

'''Montclair NJ''' 
a suburb about twenty miles west-northwest of New York City

'''Con-Edison''' 
Consolidated Edison, the utilities company serving New York

'''three meters tall''' 
about nine feet, ten inches tall

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'''Weber Grill''' 
a real brand, you can see examples [http://www.weberstuff.com/?gclid=CK71gtmRyI8CFQIQFQodpCUq9A here]

'''Passaic NJ''' 
near Montclair, Passaic is another western suburb of New York

'''capering''' 
To caper is to skip about in a playful manner.

'''rondelling''' 
To rondel (more properly, roundel) is to dance in a circle

'''simpering''' 
To simper is to smile coyly.

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

'''boscages''' 
masses of trees or shrubs

'''jetéed''' 
To jeté is to jump ballet-style.

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'''lamé''' 
an ornamental fabric incorporating threads of gold or silver

'''Titian''' 
Tiziano Vecellio (1485-1576) was a Venetian painter.

'''poison sumac''' 
a tall shrub containing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol urushiol], which causes a rash similar to poison ivy

'''ambient''' 
of or pertaining to the surrounding environment

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=April 30th, YDAU - Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

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'''les salles de danser''' 
French: dancing rooms

'''Val d'Or, Québec''' 
city of northern Québec, 325 miles northwest of Montreal

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'''eidetic''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_memory photographic memory]

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'''murated''' 
a rarely used English word (found in ''OED'') meaning "surrounded by walls"

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