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Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment
halogen
Halogens are the following elements -- fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine -- some of which are used in high-powered lamps
the color of sour apples
i.e., light green
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2^27
2^27 (2 to the 27th power) = 134,217,728
Montcerf, Québec
a city of Québec about 82.5 miles due north of Ottawa
Mercier Dam
You can read more about it here.
Pompano Beach
a town in Florida about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale
a sepulchral Czech kid named Lendl
Sepulchral implies the grave and can mean "hollow;" syn. "cadaverous." The Czech kid is probably Ivan Lendl, although Lendl has not committed suicide.
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Kimberly-Clark
an American corporation based in Wisconsin
"His Unforced-Error stats look like a decimal-error."
which is to say that the percentage expressed as a a decimal has so many leading zeros that it looks as if someone made a mistake transcribing the number
Endnote 86
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revenant
a person who returns
transom
a window above a door
thespio-historical
regarding the history of acting
"...had the word Homo in the title..."
The film is James O. Incandenza's Homo Duplex.
quad-function
a quadratic function, which produces a parabolic graph result
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pirouette
a spin, in ballet terminology
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I-beams
standard construction beams made of metal (see right)
hypertonic
having rigid, tense muscles
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undead
the state of several unnatural beings (vampires, mummies, zombies, etc.), which is in a state neither live nor dead
kibitzing
chatting or conversing
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whippet
a one-inhalation dose of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)
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Taoist paraboloid logo
referring to the yin/yang symbol (seen right)
ten m.
32.8 feet
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effete
degenerate or decadent
Sinn Fein
Irish for "ourselves alone," this is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.
cruciform
in the form of a cross
cuffs
rotator cuffs
polybutylene
This is polymerized butlyene.
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neurasthenic
regarding a syndrome of anxiety, fatigue, pain, etc., caused by exhaustion of the central nervous system
Preludin
brand name of phenmetrazine
Inv.
Invitational
40º C
104 degrees Fahrenheit
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pregnable
open to attack; capable of being won by force
nacelle
the car of a balloon or blimp
corrugated
bent into folds
leaf-cutter-ant
a type of North American ant
Gore-Tex
brand name of material
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AC
Alternating Current
low-lipid
i.e., low-fat
Endnote 89
reductive statistics
Wallace is talking either about the process in statistics of reducing variables or Schtitt's use of statistics being reductive, i.e., being simplistic
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equanimity
mental or emotional stability
laissez-faire
French for "to let to do," this is a term usually applied to conservative economics but here generally gives a sense of not caring very much.
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erumpent
bursting forth
Boards
college entrance examinations
ad
a tennis term meaning "advantage" for one or the other player
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