Bb: Bilking

Bilking:
1.
a. To defraud, cheat, or swindle: made millions bilking wealthy clients on art sales.
b. To evade payment of: bilk one's debts.
2. To thwart or frustrate: "Fate . . . may be to a certain extent bilked" Thomas Carlyle.
3. To elude.
n.
1. One who cheats.
2. Obsolete A hoax or swindle.
[Perhaps alteration of balk.]

Tt: tracudianism

Tracudianism

Theology. the doctrine that a new human soul is generated from the souls of the parents at the moment of conception. — traducianist, n. — traducianistic, adj.
from Latin, vine-branch trained for propagation, to lead across.

-Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

Tt: Transmigration

Transmigration:

intr.v. trans·mi·grat·ed, trans·mi·grat·ing, trans·mi·grates

1. To migrate.

2. To pass into another body after death. Used of the soul.

Dd: Dionysia

Dionysia:

celebrations honoring the wine god, Dionysus.
Another word for revelry.

Dd: Delphic

Adjective

obscure or ambiguous, like the ancient Greek oracle at Delphi.

Aa: Apollonian

Apollonian: Harmonious, ordered rational, calm.

Vv: Venereal

Venereal: Having to do with sexual intercourse or disease transmitted by it.

Venus looks forward to the lovers she will draw to her at Virginia's Fountain. The fountain spouts in the middle of her beautiful garden. She listens to odes,wearing her silk kimono, as she looks alluringly. She smells of rose hips, sprinkled on her elongated neck. Venus uses her sirens to allure her next lover.

Oo: Odium

Found in the Apologetic of Tertullian:

But , if they condemn her unheard-let us set on one side the odium such injustice will not incur- they will rouse the suspicion that they have some secret sense that they are unjust, when they refuse to hear what, once heard, they cannot condemn. (Line 3)

Odium (n):

1. Strong dislike, contempt, or aversion.

2. A state of disgrace resulting from hateful or detestable conduct.

Aa: Axiom

1. A self-evident or universally recognized truth; a maxim.
2. An established rule, principle, or law.
3. A self-evident principle or one that is accepted as true without proof as the basis for argument; a postulate.

from Greek, axios, worthy

Hh: Hector

Hector: to bully; to intimidate or harass by bluster or personal pressure.

Ss: Smarm

Verb

Brit informal

1. to bring (oneself) into favour (with)

2. Old-fashioned (often foll. by down)to flatten (the hair) with oil [origin unknown]

Adj: Smarmy

55 Word Story:
Warning: Smarm is sticky like a spider web. The smell gets around you, a great cloud that you can't shake off. It clouds clear perception and leads to self denying destruction. The car sales man wears the cowboy hat but has no cattle. Smarm is an offensive, slimy, gooey, obnoxious smell, and must be avoided.

Gg: Gossamer

They have even convinced themselves that thin air is good for their bellies and following that logic, have gone on sparse diets, refuting all but the most gossamer food.

Einstine's Dreams by Alan Lightman.

Noun

1. a very fine fabric

2. a filmy cobweb often seen on foliage or floating in the air [probably Middle English gos goose + somer summer; referring to St Martin's summer, a period in November when goose was eaten and cobwebs abound]

Cc: Copacetic

Very satisfactory or acceptable; fine: "You had to be a good judge of what a man was like, and the English was copacetic" John O'Hara.

Happy Birthday to Gregorio Roth!!!!

Ss: Sisyphean

Ss: Sisyphean: Endless and difficult.
Reputedly the cleverest man on earth, Sisyphus tricked the gods into bring him back to life after he died. For this they punished him back to the underworld, where he must eternally roll a huge rock u p a long steep hill, only to watch it roll back to where it started.
55 Word Story:
Bloging? Am I involved with a deluded Sisyphean task? For there are thousands of blogs out there, least I forget! Why the endless task of 55 words, only to start again, renewal of, renewing itself, rewound to a tight precision... like a tight piece of leather, flogging out words in my mind...but I am like Sisyphus who endlessly rolled a rock up a hill only to start again....

Ee: Egregious

Egregious: shockingly bad: egregious government waste [Latin egregius outstanding (literally: standing out from the herd)]

Tt: Tremendum

Tt: Tremendum:
From RC Sproul's book The H0liness of God:

Otto spoke of the tremendum (awe-ful-ness) because of the fear the holy provokes in us.

Sometimes it causes me tremble... tremble... tumble."

Pp: Promethean

Promethean: New or creative in a daring way. (Like stealing fire from the gods.)

Promothean:
Promethean stole fire from the Gods. His punishment was a renewal of each day exactly as the last day was played, some famous words on the punishment:

Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! he hates him much
That would upon the rack of this tough world
Stretch him out longer.

King Lear, 5. 3 William Shakespeare

Phil: When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter.
Groundhogs Day, 1993

Vv: vulcanize

Vulcanize: To treat crude or synthetic rubber or plastic so that it becomes elastic and strong and resists decay.

55 Word Story:
Vulcan arms hammered on new iron, sweat bedded down his head, forging a new thunderbolt for Jupiter. Vulcan looked at his diploma on the wall, that said Official Fire Smithy For the Gods. Once a year he would attend his own "Burningman Festival", and watch live fish thrown into the bonfire as a pleasing sacrifice.

Tt: Triton

Triton: (1) A being with a human upper body and the lower body of a fish; a merman. (2)Any of various large mollusks with a heavy, conical shell.

Mm: Moni

Moni: comes from the Latin verb monere, "to warn" or "to scold": Warning and scolding often are rather similar, since many warnings could be called "pre-scoldings."
admonish: to warn or criticize mildly.

monitory: giving warning, cautionary.

monitor: to keep track of or watch, usually for a special reason.

premonition: A previous warning or notice: forewarning (2) A feeling about an even or situation before it happens.

Tt: Titanic

Titanic: Having great size, strength, or power.

Titans munched on jolly green vegetables, ambrosia and nectarines. The Titan's salivating glands splashed on the cold urban sidewalks, everyone thought it was raining, but we knew better, the rain was those jolly green giants. Kids splashed in the salty waters. The spittle ran down the titans chins and the juice went towards Ocean's rivers.

Ww: Wended

If the oranges hadn't wended their way northward by Thanksgiving, there were sure to arrive before the Christmas season, stacked first in crates at the depot, filling that musty place, where pews sat back to back, with a springtime acidity, as if the building had been rinsed with a renewing elixir that set it right for yet another year.

Larry Woiwode Ode to an Orange
Florida Orange Labels

Wended
to make (one's way) in a particular direction: it's time to wend our way back home [Old English wendan]

Mm: Martial

Martial: Having to do with war and military life.

Mars awoke to the sound of pounding on wood. His pet woodpecker Picus was needy. He stretched out his mighty arms. His arms were tattooed with pictures of Britain, Spain, Crete, and Jerusalem; places he had conquered. His wolf, curled up at the end of the bed, raised his head, saying: "Feed the bird allready!"

Jj: Junoesque

Junoesque:
Having mature , poised, and dignified beauty.

55 Word Story:

Juno heard the mature news from Hera.
She stood poised, and recapitulated all of it...
"Jupiter produced Minerva from his own head! Can you imagine your husband....birthing a child? What was he thinking? Should I bake a Carrot Kugel...or get even?"

So she gave birth to Mars and the rest is dignified beauty...

Cc: Cereal

The Origin of Cereal Named after the Roman Goddess Ceres:

The Roman goddess Ceres (Greek Demeter) was a pacifist who loved to vacation on Crete. She was a manager of the food-giving plants,and the grains came to carry her name; cereals of the Romans included wheat,barley, spelt, oats,and millet. She loved to feed her birds millet because she enjoyed their voluptuous dinning.

Ee- Evangelism

Ee- Evangelism

n.

1. Zealous preaching and dissemination of the gospel, as through missionary work.

2. Militant zeal for a cause.

Vv: Visceral

Visceral was found on 12.05.2008 at the blog post:

Film Review: Stellet Licht by the Naked Pastor

But I hung in there because I was intrigued by the very grounded, visceral and honest approach of the film.

adj.

1. Relating to, situated in, or affecting the viscera.

2. Perceived in or as if in the viscera; profound: "The scientific approach to life is not really appropriate to states of visceral anguish" Anthony Burgess.

3. Instinctive: visceral needs. See Synonyms at instinctive.

Ss: Sanctification

Found in Matthew Henry's commentary on Galations 1:1-5
But it is in vain for those who are not delivered from this present evil world by the sanctification of the Spirit, to expect that they are freed from its condemnation by the blood of Jesus.

tr.v. sanc·ti·fied, sanc·ti·fy·ing, sanc·ti·fies

1. To set apart for sacred use; consecrate.

2. To make holy; purify.

3. To give religious sanction to, as with an oath or vow: sanctify a marriage.

4. To give social or moral sanction to.

5. To make productive of holiness or spiritual blessing.

Pp Pen/Pun

Pen/Pun comes from the Latin words poena, "penalty" and punire, "to punish" . From them come such English words as penalty and repentance; when a penalty is given to someone it is expected that he or she will be moved to repentence.

impunity: freedom from punishment, harm, or loss.

penal: Having to do with punishment or penalties, or instituions which punishment is given.

Penance: An act of self punishment or religious devotion to show sorrow or rgeret for sin or wrongdoing.

punitive: giving, involving, or aiming at punishment.

Pp: Word Family PATH

PATH:
comes from the Greek word pathos, which means "suffering." A pathetic sight moves us to pity, Pathos itself is used in English to describe the intense emotions produced by tragedy.

apathetic: (1) showing or felling little or no emotion. (2) Having no interest.

Empathy: the feeling of or the ability to feel, the emotions and sense of another.

Pathology: (1) The study of diseases

Sociopath: A mentally ill or unstable person who acts in a way that harms people and society.

Uu: Unctious

Unctuous:

Found in the book Silence in October by Jens Christian Grondahl...

To begin with I thought it was some kind of moral reform, and he did talk about having children with an unctuous piety I would never have ascribed to him, but they didn't have any, and soon he was on the rampage again like a fox in the hen house.

Unctuous:

adj.

1. Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness: "the unctuous, complacent court composer who is consumed with envy and self-loathing" Rhoda Koenig.

2. Having the quality or characteristics of oil or ointment; slippery.

3. Containing or composed of oil or fat.

4. Abundant in organic materials; soft and rich: unctuous soil.

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Middle English from Old French unctueus, to anoint...

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Synonyms: unctuous, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy
These adjectives mean insincerely, self-servingly, or smugly agreeable or earnest: an unctuous toady; gave the dictator a fulsome introduction; oily praise; oleaginous hypocrisy; smarmy self-importance.