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367 (2) · Boston AA Meeting (continued)
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deprecate
to express disapproval
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conundrum
something puzzling
cunctations
delays
chagrin
embarrassment
aphasiac
inability to speak
Filene's
now owned by Macy's
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unironic
i.e., totally expected and not at all a surprise
disingenuous
lacking in sincerity
schlepping
moving awkwardly or slowly
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Naked I Club
a real strip club mentioned here
Route 1
U.S. 1 runs from Fort Kent, Maine, at the Canadian border down to Key West, Fla., mainly through small towns.
Saugus MA
a suburb of Boston about ten miles south of the city
etiology
the cause or source of a medical problem
Mud-Bug
a Southern term for a crawfish
invertebrate
an animal with a spine
chordate phylum
the phylum of the animal kingdom containing all animals with spines
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Campfire Girls
apparently not just for girls anymore
Lancôme
one of France's largest cosmetics manufacturers
lurid
gruesome or shocking
ubiquitousness
the quality of always being present
Aetna
a real insurance company
Doric column
columns of buildings built according to the Doric order
pliability
the ability to be easily bent
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Ramparts and Commonweal
Ramparts was a magazine founded for a Catholic leadership but eventually found its niche with the New Left. Commonweal was and still is a publication by and for lay Catholics.
Sally Jessy Raphael M.S.W.
Sally Jessy Raphael (born Sally Lowenthal, 1938) is an American talk-show host. She does not hold an M.S.W., i.e., a Master's of Social Work
complicity
the status of being an accomplice in a wrongdoing
Wounded, Hurting, Inadequately Nurtured but Ever-Recovering Survivors
Look at the initials of the capitalized words.
auburn
reddish-brown
perimeter
the oustide edge of something
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vanity
a dressing table
limbic system
a complex system within the brain
gauntlet
an attack from all sides
rasa the tabula
This is a pun on tabula rasa, Latin for "blank state" and used in the philosophy of John Locke (1632-1704). The sense here is the clean the slate.
bandanna
a large printed handkerchief, typically red or blue with a white design
circumoral
surrounding the mouth
vacuole and optica
These are parts of a cell, the optica likely being some kind of "seeing" organ.
protozoan
a single-celled organism
Hours
another name for the Horae
prurient
causing lust
cherub
Often this word is used to denote a baby angel, but the actual connotation of the original Hebrew is of a fearsome warrior angel. A cherub guards the Garden of Eden in Genesis so that Adam and Eve cannot go back in.
lolled
dropped
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IV
intravenous, i.e., directly into a vein
lucidity
mental clarity
implicit
unspoken but implied
Six Flags Over the Poconos
Six Flags is a chain of amusement parks. There is not currently one in the Pocono Mountains.
labrynth
This is the mythological spelling of "labyrinth," meaning generically a maze, but more specifically denoting the maze built by Daedalus of ancient Greek myth.
minotaurs
Daedalus build his famous maze to house the minotaur, a monster that was half man and half bull and the product of sexual congress between Europa, queen of Crete, and Zeus in the form of a bull.
aides de camp
a confidential assistant to a military officer
absconded
departed suddenly and in secret
proto-Fascist
Wallace really means "quasi-Fascist" rather than "proto-Fascist"; it's not as if the rules of AA are the harbinger of Fascism later to come.
decamped
a synonym of "absconded"
Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad
commode
toilet
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Sic
This word means: "Thus; so. Used to indicate that a quoted passage, especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been retained in its original form or written intentionally" (American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language).
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