vocabulary mercedes camaron que se duerme se lo lleva la corriente. 040525 ... poetrylawetryatyahoodotcom So true! If you're not paying attention, you're going to be dragged along to where you don't want to be. 040525 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Part of the_education_of_e_o_i is learning new words and expressions. Three today: "orthagonal to" - unrelated, one thing not affecting the other. This was confusing at first, because in math it means a perpendicular, and perpendicular lines presumably intersect...but then there's some fancy math that says it means one variable not affecting the other, and the other meaning presumably derived from that. "obloquy" - fierce criticism or disgrace resulting from such. I'm sure I've seen this word before and had the impression it meant something negative. I just didn't know exactly what. "adventitious" - by chance. It sounds like "adventurous", which is a little confusing. 210927 ... e_o_i Actually, why SHOULD perpendicular lines intersect? They don't have to, if they're finite. Anyway, I wanted to add a fun one, not from school but from a friend's movie review: "shambolic" - in shambles: chaotic, disorganized. When I first saw it, I didn't know it was the adjective form of "shambles." But it is! and it's kind of adorable. 210927 ... e_o_i Today_I_learned that the French word "chevauchement" means overlap. It sounds like it should have something to do with horses, like chevauchée. Maybe if you chevauchée too far you'll create a chevauchement, or something. 251008 ... e_o_i And thanks to ovenbird, "parhelion" (Wikipedia calls it a "sun dog" and the second picture on the page now looks like the Eye of Sauron). Basically, two bright spots on each side of the sun, or a halo around it, often caused by ice in clouds. 251008 what's it to you? who go blather from