roman a clef

Noun

1.

roman a clef - a novel in which actual persons and events are disguised as fictional characters novel - an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story

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Based on true events, director Costa-Gavras's Oscar-winning film chronicles the overthrow of the democratic government in Greece. The edge-of-your-seat action closely parallels the real-life assassination of Gregorios Lambrakis, a Greek doctor and humanist whose murder in 1963 led to an abortive public scandal. Part mystery and part thriller, Z made its mark as a groundbreaking political roman à clef, and it resonates even today.

Rr: Rescue Chip

A rescue chip is the chip you use to fish the bits of the first one that broke apart in the dip.

My tortilla chip busted when I tried to load it with extra salsa so I gotta get a rescue chip to recover the pieces.

Rr: Rue

v. rued, ru·ing, rues
v.tr.
To feel regret, remorse, or sorrow for.
v.intr.
To feel regret, remorse, or sorrow.
n.
Sorrow; regret: "To their rue, the Social Democrats have to acknowledge that the Conservative-Liberal coalition has captured the center where elections are won" Elizabeth Pond.
[Middle English ruen, from Old English hrowan, to affect with grief, and hrowian, to repent.]

Rr: Rubicon

Ancient name of the small river flowing into the Adriatic that, under the Roman Republic, marked the boundary between Italy proper and Cisalpine Gaul. When Caesar led his army across it 49 BC, he therefore declared war on the Republic; hence to ‘cross the Rubicon’ means to take an irrevocable step.

The Rubicon is believed to be the present-day Fiumicino, which flows into the Adriatic just north of Rimini.
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Rr: Rogue

n.

1. An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.

2. One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp.

3. A wandering beggar; a vagrant.

4. A vicious and solitary animal, especially an elephant that has separated itself from its herd.

5. An organism, especially a plant, that shows an undesirable variation from a standard.

adj.

1. Vicious and solitary. Used of an animal, especially an elephant.

2. Large, destructive, and anomalous or unpredictable: a rogue wave; a rogue tornado.

3. Operating outside normal or desirable controls: "How could a single rogue trader bring down an otherwise profitable and well-regarded institution?" Saul Hansell.

v. rogued, rogu·ing, rogues

v.tr.

1. To defraud.

2. To remove (diseased or abnormal specimens) from a group of plants of the same variety.

v.intr.

To remove diseased or abnormal plants.

Reference in Literature:

"Huh!--who ever heard of butterfly-broke horses?" Billy chaffed. "That's worth fifty bucks more on their price."

"Wait till you get across the Oregon line into the Rogue River Valley," they were told. "There's God's Paradise --climate, scenery, and fruit-farming; fruit ranches that yield two hundred per cent. on a valuation of five hundred dollars an acre."

Rr: RECAPITULATION

v. re·ca·pit·u·lat·ed, re·ca·pit·u·lat·ing, re·ca·pit·u·lates

1. To repeat in concise form.

2. Biology To appear to repeat (the evolutionary stages of the species) during the embryonic development of the individual organism.
3. Christ repeated Adam only in reverse.