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abient
adjective
tending to move away from a stimulus or situation.
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Abient 鈥渢ending to move away from a stimulus or situation鈥� comes from the Latin term 补产颈脓苍蝉 (stem abient-) 鈥済oing away,鈥� the present participle of the verb 补产墨谤别 鈥渢o go away, exit, depart.鈥� 础产墨谤别 is formed from the preposition ab 鈥渇rom, away鈥� and the verb 墨谤别 鈥渢o go,鈥� which has two stems: -ient and -it. The verb 墨谤别 also gives rise to amb墨谤别 鈥渢o go around,鈥� in墨谤别 鈥渢o go into, begin,鈥� and tr膩ns墨谤别 鈥渢o go across, cross,鈥� and to see evidence of all these Latin verbs in English today, compare ambient and ambition, initial and initiate, and transient and transit. The -it stem also pops up in circuit (from Latin circum墨谤别 鈥渢o go round, circle鈥�), exit (from ex墨谤别 鈥渢o go out鈥�), and even obituary (from ob墨谤别 鈥渢o go toward,鈥� often used euphemistically in the sense 鈥渢o meet one鈥檚 death鈥�). Abient was first recorded in English in the early 1930s.
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In the case of negative affect, the motivating experience can be best described, not as punishing, but as experience that tends to be psychologically noxious and difficult to tolerate. Such experience instigates abient behavior鈥攂ehavior that tends to produce avoidance and to reduce attention to and/or communion with the object of the affect when there is an object.
To avoid writing, I engage in abient behavior: walking the dog, cleaning the floor, ironing T-shirts, or reading junk mail.
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jornada
noun
a full day's travel across a desert without a stop for taking on water.
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Jornada 鈥渁 full day’s travel across a desert鈥� is a loanword from Spanish, and prior to Spanish, the term derived via Occitan, a language once widely spoken in southern France, from a Vulgar Latin word akin to 诲颈耻谤苍腻迟补 鈥渁 day’s time, day’s work,鈥� from Latin diurnus 鈥渄aily.鈥� Though some modern Romance languages derive their words for 鈥渄ay鈥� from the Latin noun 诲颈脓蝉 鈥渄ay鈥� (compare Portuguese dia, Romanian zi, and Spanish 诲铆补), others base their words for 鈥渄ay鈥� on the adjective diurnus (compare French jour, Italian giorno, and Occitan jorn). Both 诲颈脓蝉 and diurnus come from the Proto-Indo-European root dyeu- 鈥渢o shine; sky, heaven,鈥� which is also the ultimate source of the recent 51吃瓜s of the Day toujours perdrix, circadian, and jovial. Jornada was first recorded in English in the 1650s.
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Last night around the campfire Pattie had explained that when they rolled out this morning it might take as much as two and a half days, if they were unlucky, a double Jornada, to travel from the banks of the Arkansas to the Cimarron. And between the two rivers, he warned, the landscape would change dramatically. For sixty or seventy miles there would be nothing but an immense barren plain鈥攏othing at all, no wood and no water, not a stream, not a creek, not a puddle, not a drip of spit (he said) until they reached either the Cimarron River, which was itself often dry, or a spot just to the north of it called the Lower Springs.
The terrain was thick with cholla and clumps of it clung to the horses with spikes that would drive through a boot-sole to the bones within and a wind came up through the hills and all night it sang with a wild viper sound through that countless reach of spines. They rode on and the land grew more spare and they reached the first of a series of jornadas where there would be no water at all and there they camped.
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ballyhoo
noun
a clamorous and vigorous attempt to win customers or advance any cause; blatant advertising or publicity.
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Ballyhoo 鈥渂latant advertising or publicity鈥� is a word with an unclear etymology. The word is an Americanism, meaning that it originated in the collection of dialects of English spoken in the United States, and along with fellow Americanisms such as hobo, jazz, and jitney, ballyhoo鈥檚 origins are obscure鈥攖hough, of course, there abound several theories with varying degrees of probability. One proposal relates to ballyhoo鈥檚 earlier, now obsolete sense of 鈥渟peech by a show presenter that boastfully advertises a performance,鈥� which connects ballyhoo to carnival and circus lingo. From here, if this hypothesis holds weight, ballyhoo could be a shortened form of ballyhooly 鈥淗ell,鈥� perhaps named rather unaffectionately after a village in northern County Cork, Ireland: the logic here is that, following the pattern of the phrase to raise hell, ballyhooly was clipped at the end and narrowed in definition from 鈥淗ell鈥� to 鈥渃lamor, outcry鈥� and then again to 鈥渟howman鈥檚 speech.鈥� Other hypotheses about the origins of ballyhoo include an inversion of the elements that form hullabaloo 鈥涡辫谤辞补谤.鈥� Ballyhoo was first recorded in English in the 1830s.
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As a young man, William worked for a logging company on Vancouver Island, cycling 30 miles after a long day of physical labour. He qualified for the 1928 Olympics at Amsterdam …. [He] turned professional the following year, ending his Olympic career, becoming a popular figure in the sporting culture. He was even romantically linked to Countess Fern Andra, a beauty of German silent movies and friend of the spy Mata Hari. The romance likely was a bit of promotional ballyhoo.
Barely a decade ago, the New York men鈥檚 wear presentations merited their own dedicated week with all the attendant ballyhoo, parties, corporate sponsorships and street-style photographers trawling for Instagram fodder. People turned out in droves, disporting themselves in outlandish costumes 鈥�. Plenty of schlock was produced during those weeks 鈥�
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