(adj.)
-Living among, inhabiting, or growing on rocks.
Used in a sentence:
“When cousin Larry Appleton wanted to toughen up his image by joining a rock band, Balki balked, saying ‘don’t be rupicolous!’”
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(adj.)
-Living among, inhabiting, or growing on rocks.
Used in a sentence:
“When cousin Larry Appleton wanted to toughen up his image by joining a rock band, Balki balked, saying ‘don’t be rupicolous!’”
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(adj.)
-Slightly risqué/indecent; bawdy/slightly off-colour
-Bizarre, interesting, or unusual
-Harmlessly mischievous
Used in a sentence:
“I can honestly say that I’ve never met anyone quite so ostrobogulous as Lady Octavia.”
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German(ish) word of the day: abgefuckt = a portmanteau of English fucked up and German abgewichst
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Magmatic Evolution - The continuing change in composition of a magma as a result of magmatic differentiation, assimilation, or mixing of magmas.
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Magmatic Evolution - The continuing change in composition of a magma as a result of magmatic differentiation, assimilation, or mixing of magmas.
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(n.)
- A hand in Bridge or Whist containing no ace and no card higher than a nine.
Used in a sentence:
"I think Clud has a better chance of getting dealt a Yarborough than of getting JoLynne to agree to be his date to the Spring Formal Dance.”
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(n.)
- A hand in Bridge or Whist containing no ace and no card higher than a nine.
Used in a sentence:
"I think Clud has a better chance of getting dealt a Yarborough than of getting JoLynne to agree to be his date to the Spring Formal Dance.”
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(n.)
- A second-rate ballad singer.
Used in a sentence:
“Despite the best band, back-up singers, and pyrotechnics money could buy, the cantabank’s debut performance ended in jeers, tears, and an unceremonious defenestration.”
The Latin phrase Si Vis Amari, Ama means "If You Want To Be Loved, Love."
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Catastrophism - (a) The doctrine that sudden violent, short-lived, more or less worldwide events events outside our present experience or knowledge of nature have greatly modified the Earth’s crust;
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Catastrophism - (a) The doctrine that sudden violent, short-lived, more or less worldwide events events outside our present experience or knowledge of nature have greatly modified the Earth’s crust;
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Bimodal Sediment - A sediment whose particle-size distribution shows two maxima; for example many coarse alluvial gravels.
From the 2nd Edition of AGI’s Glossary of Geology
[This distribution may indicate variable sources or transport mechanisms.] 1/3
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Bimodal Sediment - A sediment whose particle-size distribution shows two maxima; for example many coarse alluvial gravels.
From the 2nd Edition of AGI’s Glossary of Geology
[This distribution may indicate variable sources or transport mechanisms.] 1/3
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Nu’ee Ardente - A swiftly flowing, turbulent gaseous cloud, sometimes incandescent, erupted from a volcano and containing ash and other pyroclastics in its lower part; 1/2
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Nu’ee Ardente - A swiftly flowing, turbulent gaseous cloud, sometimes incandescent, erupted from a volcano and containing ash and other pyroclastics in its lower part; 1/2
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Placer Deposit - A surficial mineral deposit formed by mechanical concentration of mineral particles from weathered debris. 1/2
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Placer Deposit - A surficial mineral deposit formed by mechanical concentration of mineral particles from weathered debris. 1/2
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(n.)
- One who speaks overmuch without saying anything of importance or without making much sense.
- One who blathers on and on.
Used in a sentence:
“That bloviating blatherskite sure seems to have a lot to say; unfortunately none of it makes a darn bit of sense.”
(n.)
-Effervescence; being full of small bubbles, as w/carbonated beverages
“I laugh whenever she drinks champagne because the nittiness always tickles her nose which causes her to make this adorable expression that looks like a mischievous little elf.”
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(n.)
-Effervescence; being full of small bubbles, as w/carbonated beverages
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Rootless Pluton - A pluton that formed exogenously and was emplaced onto a continental mass through accretion…apart from its source of magma.
My own definition…because in vacation mode from the eastern margin of the rootless Mt. Ashland pluton.
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Rootless Pluton - A pluton that formed exogenously and was emplaced onto a continental mass through accretion…apart from its source of magma.
My own definition…because in vacation mode from the eastern margin of the rootless Mt. Ashland pluton.
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Tsunami - A gravitational sea wave produced by any large-scale, short-duration disturbance of the sea floor, principally by a shallow submarine earthquake, but also by submarine earth movement, subsidence, or volcanic eruption.
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Tsunami - A gravitational sea wave produced by any large-scale, short-duration disturbance of the sea floor, principally by a shallow submarine earthquake, but also by submarine earth movement, subsidence, or volcanic eruption.
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Gilgai - The micro-relief of heavy clay soils with high coefficients of expansion and contraction according to changes in moisture. Gilgai is typical of vertisols.
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From the 2nd Edition of AGI’s Glossary of Geology
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Gilgai - The micro-relief of heavy clay soils with high coefficients of expansion and contraction according to changes in moisture. Gilgai is typical of vertisols.
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From the 2nd Edition of AGI’s Glossary of Geology
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Cotectic - Said of conditions of temperature, pressure, and composition under which two or more solid phases crystallize simultaneously and without resorption from a single liquid over a finite range of falling temperature;
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Cotectic - Said of conditions of temperature, pressure, and composition under which two or more solid phases crystallize simultaneously and without resorption from a single liquid over a finite range of falling temperature;
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