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epilogue
noun
a concluding part added to a literary work, as a novel.
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Epilogue 鈥渁 concluding part added to a literary work鈥� derives via Middle English and Latin from Ancient Greek 别辫铆濒辞驳辞蝉 鈥渃onclusion of a speech,鈥� a compound of the preposition 别辫铆 鈥渋n addition to, over, on鈥� and the noun 濒贸驳辞蝉 鈥渨ord.鈥� While an epilogue comes at the end of a book, a prologue comes at the beginning. The element 别辫铆, appearing in English as the prefix epi-, is also found in terms such as epidemic, originally meaning 鈥渁mong the people,鈥� and epidermis, originally meaning 鈥渙n the skin.鈥� 尝贸驳辞蝉 comes from the verb 濒茅驳别颈苍 鈥渢o gather, choose, speak鈥� and is the source of words such as apology, dialogue, and logarithm; this noun is also the source of the combining form -logy 鈥渟cience,鈥� as in biology, geology, and zoology. Epilogue was first recorded in English at the turn of the 15th century.
how is epilogue used?
Some great English Victorian novels also have epilogues. The epilogue of George Eliot鈥檚 Adam Bede takes us forward by more than seven years to show the appropriate fates of its chief characters .鈥� Wilkie Collins鈥檚 The Moonstone has an epilogue that satisfyingly brings his narrative full circle. The mystery of the Moonstone鈥檚 theft has been solved. In the epilogue we hear how this fabulous diamond is restored to the Indian idol from which it was taken in the novel鈥檚 Prologue.
The Stand [miniseries] ruined some of Stephen King鈥檚 best villains and left the heroes with little to do, which makes it surprising that the writer himself almost saved the series in a single episode. King penned the final episode of The Stand, a new epilogue that takes place after the action of the story proper, and it鈥檚 tense, terrifying, thoughtful, and hopeful鈥攅verything 2020鈥檚 The Stand failed to be until its finale.
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nebbish
noun
a pitifully ineffectual, luckless, and timid person.
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Nebbish 鈥渁 pitifully ineffectual person鈥� is a variant of the Yiddish term nebekh 鈥減oor, unfortunate.鈥� Unlike the majority of words in Yiddish, which are of Germanic extraction, nebekh is most likely from a Slavic source such as Czech 苍别产辞丑媒 鈥減oor.鈥� The original meaning of this Slavic source was 鈥渦nendowed,鈥� and it derived from a negative prefix (compare English not and non-) and the Proto-Indo-European root bhag- 鈥渢o share, apportion.鈥� This same root is also found in Ancient Greek phagein 鈥渢o eat,鈥� as in esophagus. Nebbish was first recorded in English in the early 1890s.
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The ability to make a nebbish of ourselves is given to all of us. Some exist with this condition on a permanent basis; others can just turn it on at will. 鈥� Of course, being on the fortunate, effectual side of the nebbish equation is always preferable to being on the 鈥渨rong鈥� side of nebbishness. But I daresay that all of us have, at one time or another, felt the discomfort and humiliation of acting like a nebbish, wishing that the earth would open up and swallow us, whole.
On Nov. 19, Skylight opens “Little Shop of Horrors,” the Alan Menken-Howard Ashman musical that blends comedy and horror through a score that draws on pre-Beatles rock, doo-wop and Motownish sounds. Sievert plays Seymour, the lovestruck florist-shop nebbish who unexpectedly becomes the caretaker of a carnivorous and increasingly hungry hunk of vegetation.
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unguinous
adjective
resembling, containing, or consisting of fat or oil; greasy; oily.
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Unguinous 鈥渃ontaining fat or oil鈥� derives from Latin unguen 鈥渇at, grease,鈥� plus the suffix -艒蝉耻蝉 鈥渇ull of.鈥� Unguen, in turn, comes from the verb unguere 鈥渢o smear鈥� (stem unct-), which is also the source of English terms such as unction 鈥渁n act of anointing,鈥� unctuous 鈥渉aving an oily feel,鈥� and unguent 鈥渁 salve applied to wounds.鈥� The stem unct- regularly became oint in French, leading to words such as anoint and ointment. Unguinous was first recorded in English at the turn of the 17th century.
how is unguinous used?
She was sitting in the tent, languidly waiting for the women to come and prepare her for the wedding ceremony. Anointed from head to toe with an unguinous, aromatic oil, her pomaded hair suffused with a sharp scent, she sat vacantly on a pile of sacks, her embroidered gown and jewelry in a corner, chafing her oiled arms as if to dry them.
The suit and vest were of an old style, obviously not clean, an unguinous stain down the vest front, and the jacket ashen-white along the lapels and cuff edges where it was worn, but she could see that it had once been a good proper suit, and something about its tidy narrow cut and the way the man fit inside it, comfortably and with a cute sort of pride, reminded her of Poppy and the suit he kept for special occasions and in which he had been buried.
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