A.Word.A.Day Archives from https://wordsmith.org/awad -------- Date: Wed Oct 1 00:01:04 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--ganef X-Bonus: War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. -Jimmy Carter, 39th US President, Nobel laureate (b. 1924) This week's theme: Words borrowed from Yiddish ganef (GAH-nuhf) noun A thief, swindler, or rascal. [From Yiddish, from Hebrew gannabh (thief). Earliest documented use: 1920.] Also spelled as gonif, goniff, ganif, etc. See usage examples in Vocabulary.com's dictionary: http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/ganef "Seniors, particularly women, are the largest and most frequent target of financial scamsters, and this ganef takes the cupcake." Malcolm Berko; Life Insurance, Farmland, and Facebook; Creators Syndicate (Los Angeles); Nov 6, 2013. -------- Date: Thu Oct 2 00:01:03 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--macher X-Bonus: Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle. -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) This week's theme: Words borrowed from Yiddish macher (MAHKH-uhr) noun 1. A person of influence, one who gets things done. 2. A self-important overbearing person. [From Yiddish makher, from German macher (maker or doer). Earliest documented use: 1911.] "They weren't all his ideas, but he -- he, Andrew Cuomo -- was the macher who'd do it." Scott Raab; The Perfect Prince of Cool; Esquire (New York); Nov 2000. -------- Date: Fri Oct 3 00:01:04 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--kibitzer X-Bonus: As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. -Gore Vidal, author (1925-2012) This week's theme: Words borrowed from Yiddish kibitzer (KIB-it-suhr) noun An onlooker who offers unwanted advice or criticism, for example at a card game. [From Yiddish kibitsen, from German kiebitzen (to look on at cards), from Kiebitz (busybody, literally pewit or lapwing, a shorebird with a bad reputation as a meddler). Earliest documented use: 1927.] See usage examples in Vocabulary.com's dictionary: http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/kibitzer https://wordsmith.org/words/images/kibitzer_large.jpg Art: Giovanni Garinei "Don't listen to the Internet kibitzers. Arthur Chu is playing the game right." Ken Jennings; Arthur Chu Is Playing Jeopardy! the Right Way; Slate (New York); Feb 10, 2014. -------- Date: Mon Oct 6 00:01:03 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--lubricious X-Bonus: I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. -Jorge Luis Borges, writer (1899-1986) The novelist and journalist Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr once said, "Every man possesses three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he really has, and that which he believes he has." This week we'll present five adjectives to describe people. The usage examples ascribe various qualities to the people discussed. Whether these characteristics are what they exhibit, what they really have, or what they believe they have, well, that's up to you to decide. lubricious (loo-BRISH-uhs) adjective 1. Lecherous. 2. Salacious. 3. Shifty or tricky. 4. Smooth and slippery. [From Latin lubricus (slippery, smooth). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sleubh- (to slide or slip), which also gave us slip, slop, sloop, sleeve, and lubricate. Earliest documented use: 1584.] See usage examples in Vocabulary.com's dictionary: http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/lubricious "The lubricious, often drooling Claudius himself, I reflect, would have been into full-body massage." Clive Irving; Ye Olde Dolce Vita; Condé Nast's Traveler (New York); Apr 2011. "Ella Fitzgerald's rendition of 'Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney' was so lubricious and dripping in double entendres that her record label feared to release it." Gerry Bowler; Santa Claus: A Biography; McClelland & Stewart; 2005. -------- Date: Tue Oct 7 00:01:06 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--diffident X-Bonus: It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. -Barbara Kingsolver, novelist, essayist, and poet (b. 1955) This week's theme: Words to describe people diffident (DIF-i-duhnt) adjective 1. Restrained or reserved. 2. Lacking in self-confidence. [From Latin diffidere (to mistrust), from dis- (not) + fidere (to trust). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bheidh- (to trust), which also gave us abide, abode, fiancé, affidavit, confide, confident, defiance, fidelity, defy, and infidel. Earliest documented use: 1598.] See usage examples in Vocabulary.com's dictionary: http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/diffident "In contrast with [king] Albert's bonhomie https://wordsmith.org/words/bonhomie.html , [his son] Philippe seems shy and diffident." Sire, There are No Belgians; The Economist (London, UK); Jul 27, 2013. -------- Date: Wed Oct 8 00:01:03 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--virulent X-Bonus: When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money. -Alanis Obomsawin, filmmaker (b. 1932) This week's theme: Words to describe people virulent (VIR-yuh-luhnt, -uh-) adjective 1. Bitterly hostile. 2. Highly infective. 3. Extremely dangerous. [From Latin virus (poison). Earliest documented use: 1400.] See usage examples in Vocabulary.com's dictionary: http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/virulent "In those later years, Fred [Koch] also became a major benefactor and board member of the John Birch Society, the rabidly anti-communist organization founded in 1958 by candy magnate and virulent racist Robert Welch." Tim Dickinson; Inside the Koch Brothers' Toxic Empire; Rolling Stone (New York); Sep 24, 2014. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/inside-the-koch-brothers-toxic-empire-20140924 https://web.archive.org/web/20230526165347/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/inside-the-koch-brothers-toxic-empire-164403/ -------- Date: Thu Oct 9 00:01:02 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--convivial X-Bonus: Imagine there's no countries, / It isn't hard to do. / Nothing to kill or die for, / And no religion, too. / Imagine all the people / Living life in peace. -John Lennon, musician (1940-1980) This week's theme: Words to describe people convivial (kuhn-VIV-ee-uhl) adjective Friendly; sociable; cheerful; jovial. [From Latin convivium (feast), from con- (with) + vivere (to live). Earliest documented use: 1669.] See usage examples in Vocabulary.com's dictionary: http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/convivial "Anger shot through his [Wilfried Souly's] eyes. Then he was on his feet, convivial again, beckoning us to follow him to our seats." Mark Swed; Displacement and Growth; Los Angeles Times; Jul 26, 2014. -------- Date: Fri Oct 10 00:01:03 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--orgulous X-Bonus: You become writer by writing. It is a yoga. -R.K. Narayan, novelist (1906-2001) This week's theme: Words to describe people orgulous (OR-gyuh-luhs) adjective Haughty. [From Old French orguill (pride). Earliest documented use: 1275.] "Behring was not too orgulous to ask for practical advice when in the spring of 1894 he had run into difficulties." Ulrike Klöppel; Enacting Cultural Boundaries; Science in Context (Cambridge, UK); Jun 2008. -------- Date: Mon Oct 13 00:01:03 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--odyssey X-Bonus: Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way. -Alice Childress, playwright, author, and actor (1916-1994) Ancient Greek literature is replete with stories of mortals and heroes and gods. Many of these figures have become part of the English language as eponyms, words derived from people's names. All of this week's words have their origins in characters from Greek mythology. Consider it a week of Troy Stories. And if it's too Greek for you, well, my apollogies. odyssey (AH-duh-see) noun A long eventful journey or experience. [After Odysseus, whose 10-year wandering after the fall of Troy is described in Homer's epic poem, the Odyssey. Earliest documented use: 1886.] See usage examples in Vocabulary.com's dictionary: http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/odyssey Departure of Ulysses from the Land of the Phaeacians https://wordsmith.org/words/images/odyssey_large.jpg Art: Claude Lorrain (c. 1600-1682) "In 'The Beast', ... journalist Oscar Martinez chronicled the treacherous odysseys that Central Americans undertake as they cross Mexico. ... The 'beasts' of the title are the trains on which the travelers ride not in boxcars, as American hobos did in earlier times, but on the roofs." Harold Meyerson; A New Children's March; The Washington Post; Jun 19, 2014. -------- Date: Tue Oct 14 00:01:03 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--cimmerian X-Bonus: To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. -E.E. Cummings, poet (1894-1962) This week's theme: Words from mythology Cimmerian (si-MIR-ee-uhn) adjective Very dark or gloomy. [After Cimmerians, a mythical people described in Homer's Odyssey, who lived in perpetual darkness at the entrance of Hades https://wordsmith.org/words/hades.html . The historical Cimmerians, who lived in Crimea, were unrelated. Earliest documented use: 1594.] See usage examples in Vocabulary.com's dictionary: http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/Cimmerian "All along the beach they had travelled on the empty bus, watching as lightning slashed the brooding, Cimmerian sky." Anita Rau Badami; The Hero's Walk; Algonquin Books; 2001. -------- Date: Wed Oct 15 00:01:05 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--narcissist X-Bonus: He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. -Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900) This week's theme: Words from mythology narcissist (NAHR-si-sist) noun Someone with excessive self-interest or self-love. [In Greek mythology, Narcissus was a hunter and a young man of exceptional beauty. He spurned the nymph Echo. One day he saw his reflection in water and fell in love with himself. Not realizing it was himself and unable to leave, he eventually died. Earliest documented use: 1917.] See usage examples in Vocabulary.com's dictionary: http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/narcissist Narcissus spurning Echo and falling in love with himself, 1903 https://wordsmith.org/words/images/narcissist_large.jpg Art: John William Waterhouse "Dreyfus's vice-president is a narcissist who plays an important scene in a room filled with pictures of herself." Jaime J. Weinman; Politics for Pretty People; Maclean's (Toronto, Canada); Jul 18, 2012. -------- Date: Thu Oct 16 00:01:03 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--atlas X-Bonus: A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900) This week's theme: Words from mythology atlas (AT-luhs) noun 1. A person who supports a great burden. 2. A book of maps, charts, tables, plates, etc. 3. The first vertebra of the backbone. 4. A size of drawing paper 26x33 or 26x34 inches. 5. An architectural column in the shape of a man. (Plural: atlantes. Another word for this is telamon https://wordsmith.org/words/telamon.html . The female equivalent is caryatid https://wordsmith.org/words/caryatid.html .) [After Atlas, a Titan in Greek mythology, who was condemned by Zeus to support the heavens. A book of maps is called an atlas because early books of this kind depicted Atlas on the cover holding the earth on his shoulders. Earliest documented use: 1589.] See usage examples in Vocabulary.com's dictionary: http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/atlas Atlas holding up the celestial globe https://wordsmith.org/words/images/atlas_large.jpg Art: Guercino, 1646 "Williams's performance is forced, as if he believes he is an Atlas holding up the whole picture." Afterlives; Stanley Kauffmann; The New Republic (Washington, DC); Oct 26, 1998. -------- Date: Fri Oct 17 00:01:03 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--charon X-Bonus: Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. -Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist (1915-2005) This week's theme: Words from mythology charon (KER-uhn) noun A ferryman. [After Charon, the old man who transported the souls of the dead across the rivers Styx and Acheron to Hades. In some cultures a coin was put in the mouth of the dead to pay for the ferry ride. Also see psychopomp https://wordsmith.org/words/psychopomp.html . Earliest documented use: 1522.] See usage examples in Vocabulary.com's dictionary: http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/charon Charon collecting the fare in this 1883 painting Charon and Psyche https://wordsmith.org/words/images/charon_large.jpg Art: John Roddam Spencer Stanhope "On the Ganges, a charon pulled me soundlessly across the water." Pico Iyer; Maximum India; Condé Nast Traveler; Jan, 2011. -------- Date: Mon Oct 20 00:25:02 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--mullion X-Bonus: Readers may be divided into four classes: 1. Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic (1772-1834) If you have ever found yourself saying cavalry when you meant calvary or asterix when you meant asterisk, don't let it bother you too much. It proves only one thing: you are human. We all make such transposition errors from time to time. Most of these errors are ignored in the flow of time, but there are instances when these mispronunciations become standard. The word we know as tusk was originally tux. And it happens in other languages as well. The French fromage (cheese) is an alteration of formage (forming). Spanish palabra (word) was formed from Latin parabola. This week we'll see five words that have their spellings changed owing to mispronunciation, a process known as metathesis. mullion (MUHL-yuhn) noun A vertical piece of stone, wood, metal, etc., dividing a window or other opening. [From transposition of sounds of Middle English moniel, from Anglo-Norman moynel, from Latin medius (middle). Ultimately from the Indo-European root medhyo- (middle), which is also the source of middle, mean, medium, medal (originally a coin worth a halfpenny), mezzanine, mediocre, Mediterranean, moiety https://wordsmith.org/words/moiety.html , and Hindi madhya (middle). Earliest documented use: 1556.] See usage examples in Vocabulary.com's dictionary: http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/mullion https://wordsmith.org/words/images/mullion_large.jpg Photo: Sarah Kettlewell https://www.flickr.com/photos/svkett/4371566386/ "When it comes to hanging wall art, don't overlook the mullion bar between two windows." Joshua Lyon; The Makeover Issue; Country Living (Pittsburgh); Sep 2013. -------- Date: Tue Oct 21 00:25:03 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--sprattle X-Bonus: Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals, the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great creative scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned if at all. -Martin Gardner, mathematician and writer (1914-2010) This week's theme: Words formed by metathesis (a transposition of sounds) sprattle (SPRAT-l) noun: A scramble or struggle. verb intr.: To scramble or struggle. [From Scottish sprattle, from switching of sounds in spartle (to scatter). Earliest documented use: 1500.] "I watched him sprattle as bugs do sprattle with their legs like so, like bugs's legs, stretched out and sprattling." Walter Nash; The Language of Humour; Routledge; 1985. -------- Date: Wed Oct 22 00:09:03 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--brummagem X-Bonus: All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to be noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It's a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible. -Doris Lessing, novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel laureate (1919-2013) This week's theme: Words formed by metathesis (a transposition of sounds) brummagem (BRUM-uh-juhm) adjective: Cheap and showy. noun: Something that is counterfeit or of inferior quality. [After Brummagem, a dialectal alteration of Birmingham, UK, where counterfeit coins were produced in the 17th century. Brummie is a nickname for someone from Birmingham. Earliest documented use: 1637.] See usage examples in Vocabulary.com's dictionary: http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/brummagem "Your ring is just brummagem brass." Lucy Vickery; After the Dance; The Spectator (London, UK); Feb 12, 2011. -------- Date: Thu Oct 23 00:01:02 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--pernancy X-Bonus: Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent. -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel prize in literature (1872-1970) This week's theme: Words formed by metathesis (a transposition of sounds) pernancy (PUHR-nuhn-see) noun A taking or receiving of rent, profit, etc. [From Anglo-French pernance, by switching of sounds of prenance (taking), from prendre, from Latin prehendere (to seize). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghend-/ghed- (to seize or to take), which is also the source of pry, prey, spree, reprise, surprise, osprey, prison, reprehend https://wordsmith.org/words/reprehend.html , impregnable https://wordsmith.org/words/impregnable.html , impresa https://wordsmith.org/words/impresa.html , and prise https://wordsmith.org/words/prise.html . Earliest documented use: 1626.] "For he was not to pass away the pernancy of the profits." NG Jones; Uses and "Automatic" Resulting Trusts of Freehold; The Cambridge Law Journal (UK); Mar 2013. -------- Date: Fri Oct 24 00:01:03 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--girn X-Bonus: Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. -William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616) This week's theme: Words formed by metathesis (a transposition of sounds) girn (gurn) verb intr.: To snarl, grimace, or complain. noun: A grimace or snarl. [By transposition of the word grin, from Old English grennian (to show teeth). Earliest documented use: 1440.] "At seventy-five or eighty I will be like a child myself, frail and cantankerous, a girning, burdensome old devil." Jessica Stirling; The Wind from the Hills; St Martin's Press; 1999. -------- Date: Mon Oct 27 00:01:03 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--antimetabole X-Bonus: I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945) Don't play with your food! All of us have heard that admonition as a child. "Don't play with your language!" Imagine a utilitarian prehistoric cavemom chiding a child. "We use it for practical things, such as warning about a lion." Of course, that's ridiculous. Language is to communicate: to share, alert, warn, scold, and much more. It's also to play, make jokes, and have fun. In this week's AWAD we'll feature five words related to rhetorical devices, to have fun with the language, to say things in an unusual way. CONTEST: Can you come up with an *original* example for a word featured this week? PRIZES: Winners will receive their choice of any of these prizes: o A copy of the word game One Up! http://www.oneupmanship.com/oneup.shtml o A signed copy of any of my books https://wordsmith.org/awad/books.html o The T-shirt "AWAD to the wise is sufficient" https://wordsmith.org/awad/tshirt.html HOW TO ENTER: You can enter as many times as you wish. Send your entries to (contest AT wordsmith.org) by Friday. Be sure to include your location (city/state/country). Results will be announced over the weekend. antimetabole (AN-ti-muh-TAB-uh-lee) noun A repetition of words or an idea in a reverse order. Example: "To fail to plan is to plan to fail." [From Greek antimetabole, from anti- (opposite) + metabole (change), from meta- (after, along) + bole (a throw). Earliest documented use: 1589.] "Carl Sagan's antimetabole 'absence of evidence is not evidence of absence' immediately comes to mind." Dieter Hartmann; A Multi-Messenger Story; Nature (London, UK); Jul 21, 2011. -------- Date: Tue Oct 28 00:01:02 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--zeugma X-Bonus: The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a heaven that it shows itself cloddish. -Evelyn Waugh, novelist (1903-1966) This week's theme: Rhetorical devices zeugma (ZOOG-muh) noun The use of a word to refer to two or more words, especially in different senses. Examples: "He caught a fish and a cold" or "She lost her ring and her temper." [From Latin zeugma, from Greek zeugma (a joining). Ultimately from the Indo-European root yeug- (to join), which is also the ancestor of junction, yoke, yoga, adjust, juxtapose, junta https://wordsmith.org/words/junta.html , junto https://wordsmith.org/words/junto.html , syzygy https://wordsmith.org/words/syzygy.html , jugular https://wordsmith.org/words/jugular.html , and rejoinder https://wordsmith.org/words/rejoinder.html . Earliest documented use: 1589.] See usage examples in Vocabulary.com's dictionary: http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/zeugma NOTES: There's a similar term, syllepsis, but the two are more or less synonymous now. You could say zeugma is joined with syllepsis. Or the distinction between zeugma and syllepsis has lapsed now. "One, Mister Eisenschmutz, gaunt, small, elegant, his head covered with a kepele in embroidered silk, prays with fervor and a French accent (this is a rhetorical zeugma of the sort 'I'm Hungarian and robbed')." Adam Biro (translator: Catherine Tihanyi); Is It Good for the Jews?; The University of Chicago Press; 2009. -------- Date: Wed Oct 29 00:01:03 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--synecdoche X-Bonus: If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, -- quieter, warmer. -Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary General of the United Nations, Nobel laureate (1905-1961) This week's theme: Rhetorical devices synecdoche (si-NEK-duh-kee) noun A figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole or vice versa. Examples: "head count" to refer to the count of people "the police" to refer to a police officer [From Latin synekdoche, from Greek synekdokhe, from syn- (together) + ekdokhe (interpretation). Earliest documented use: 1397.] See usage examples in Vocabulary.com's dictionary: http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/synecdoche "Rome was the heart of Italy, a synecdoche for all that humanity had wrought. Rome bore witness to the fate of republics and empires, faiths and fortunes." Jane Kamensky; John Singleton Copley's Grand Tour; Smithsonian (Washington, DC); Apr 2014. -------- Date: Thu Oct 30 00:01:06 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--epanalepsis X-Bonus: Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. -Ezra Pound, poet (1885-1972) This week's theme: Rhetorical devices epanalepsis (ep-uh-nuh-LEP-sis) noun A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is repeated after intervening text. For example: "The king is dead, long live the king!" [From Greek epanalepsis, from epi- (upon) + ana- (back) + lepsis (taking hold). Earliest documented use: 1584.] See usage examples in Vocabulary.com's dictionary: http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/epanalepsis "What's it called if a word that appears at the beginning of a sentence is repeated at its end? Epanalepsis. Think of Brutus's speech at the funeral of Julius Caesar (in Shakespeare's revision, of course): 'Hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may hear: Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe.'" Bryan A. Garner; For the Word Lovers; ABA Journal (Chicago); May 2013. -------- Date: Fri Oct 31 00:01:04 EDT 2014 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--hendiadys X-Bonus: There is a budding morrow in midnight. -John Keats, poet (1795-1821) This week's theme: Rhetorical devices hendiadys (hen-DY-uh-dis) noun A figure of speech in which two words joined by a conjunction are used to convey a single idea instead of using a word and its modifier. Example: "pleasant and warm" instead of "pleasantly warm" [From Latin hendiadys, from Greek hen dia duoin (one by two). Earliest documented use: 1589.] See usage examples in Vocabulary.com's dictionary: http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/hendiadys "'One good student and nice is Julio.' 'I compliment you on the superb hendiadys re: Julio.'" John Fredrick; The King of Good Intentions; Verse Chorus Press; 2013.