She would pay the monthly mortgage and cover the cost of bringing electricity and water to the land. In return, he would build her a house and be a general dogsbody for anything that she needed doing. (Craig Smith, “Between the Lines,” The Sante Fe New Mexican, 08/05/2016.)
This word, when used in the above sense, can also be a synonym for assistant, aide, handyman or helper.…
Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (better known as The Peacock Room) is the masterpiece of interior decorative art created by James McNeill Whistler and Thomas Jeckyll. [In 1919, the entire room was] translocated [from a mansion in Detroit] to the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peacock_Room)
This word, when used in the above sense, can also be a synonym for move or transfer.…
In the end, she said, [Paul] Rusesabagina had been brought down by hubris — his deluded conviction that it was he, not Kagame, who could heal Rwanda. “It was folie de grandeur. After he became famous, everyone was telling him, ‘Paul, you could be president.’” (Joshua Hammer, “He Was the Hero of Hotel Rwanda; Now He’s Accused of Terrorism,” The New York Times, 3/2/2021.)
This word, when used in the above sense, can also be a synonym for self-importance, egotism, conceit and narcissism.…
[French; lit. hide-sex.] [In Key West, Florida] debate rages over whether Fantasy Fest, a long-running Bacchanal in which revelers parade down Duval Street in nothing but body paint, should require nipple-pasties and cache-sexes. (Marc Mewshaw, “Seeking the Key West of Yore,” The Boston Globe, 04/13/2014.)
This word can also be a synonym for fig leaf or loincloth.…
I’m acutely aware that people coming to our southern border are not one faceless brown mass but singular individuals, with stories and backgrounds and reasons for coming that are unique… So I hoped to present one of those unique individual stories… And in so doing, I hope to create a pause where the reader may begin to individuate [and remember that] these people are people. (Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt, Flatiron Books, p. 382)
This word, when used in the above sense, can also be a synonym for differentiate, separate, or discriminate.…
