Distend It s as if Stravinsky, for once, had found an earlier form that he wanted to emulate rather than parody, extend

rather than distend. VILIFY From the start, Mr. Geithner s biggest critics have been on the left. But Jared Bernstein, a former member of the administration s economic team and a liberal economist close to some of the critics, said: To the extent people vilify Tim as only caring about banks, they re way off. DIN Wherever the Wide-Awakes went during that campaign season, their parades and the accompanying din of music and fireworks lent an impression of an inexorable tide changing the political landscape of America for all time. EBULLIENT The president, in marked contrast from his somber address last week announcing his battle with cancer, seemed ebullient on Monday ENDEMIC Mr. Watson asked Mr. Murdoch at what point did you discover that criminality was endemic at News International, the British newspaper division of News Corporation. DOFF He s buck naked! Lord have mercy! one woman said, as she watched a man doff his suit near the entrance to the Wall Street stop of the 2/3 subway line. SOMATIC The complaints of Lee s patients were typically somatic bloated stomachs. CHARY While the government seems increasingly anxious to demonstrate that oil wealth is turning into widespread benefits, it is increasingly chary of admonition-laced advice from the West. GAUCHE In their movement, shape and attitude, the clothes evoked the swagger and spirit of the Rive Gauche era, when Saint Laurent ruled. CONJURE they complained most frequently of having

Unlike, say, Chanel, which instantly conjures images of tweed suits and strings of pearls, YSL no longer has a singular identity APPRISE Today I work for a tax preparation firm at about one-fifth of what I used to make. The owner knows about my crime; it s a condition of my probation that I apprise all possible employers about what I did JEOPARDY I started stealing from the company to pay my bills and so I could continue to gamble. It was wrong and it was stupid. My son from my second marriage, now 10, lives with me, and I also put our situation in jeopardy. PALATABLE But having blacks involved, as mayors or state legislative leaders within their parties, makes the politics of these unpleasant decisions more palatable for blacks. Quiescent The power in society which has any tendency to convert itself into political power is not power quiescent, power merely passive, but active power; in other words, power actually exerted; that is to say, a very small portion of all the power in existence. WAX On Sunday afternoons for the past four decades, Jonathan Schwartz has been spinning the wax and waxing poetic on all things Sinatra and American standard. DIATRIBE A diatribe by LeBron James after Miami was beaten by Dallas in the N.B.A. finals reflected the increasing enmity between athletes and fans. AVERSION Health-conscious people have a fear of frying - certainly I have felt the aversion. PROFLIGATE In the standard conservative demonology, Franklin D. Roosevelt figures as the Deficit Devil Incarnate, the president whose profligate New Deal tax and spend policies put the republic on the path to fiscal perdition ESCHEW

Some corporate law firms, like Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Cravath Swaine & Moore, eschew the star system and maintain a more traditional partnership culture with compensation in a more narrow range RACANT But in 1633, the church condemned Galileo as a heretic. At the Inquisition, he was forced to recant to avoid being burned at the stake HERETIC Suggesting something unacceptable to the officials BELIE Her manner and appearance belie her age. [=she looks and acts like a much younger person than she really is] a tree whose delicate beauty belies its real toughness Their actions belie their claim to be innocent. PERFUNTORY After a few minutes, the perfunctory give-and-take was steered not so deftly by Mr. Letterman into the car world. FULMINATE

Politicians who fawned now fulminate. Prime Minister David Cameron is embarrassed. Both Murdoch and his savvy son James Murdoch (of more centrist views than his father) are scrambling. MACERATE TOUT
1. The company is running advertisements touting the drug's effectiveness. 2. The company's stock is being touted by many financial advisers. 3. People were touting tickets outside the stadium. 4. People were touting outside the stadium.

PROFUSE

In a letter posted online, Satoru Iwata, Nintendos president and chief executive, offered a profuse apology to Nintendo users, saying that lowering prices so soon after a game machines release was a painful move. SERRATED FLUKE
But the success of the authorities was a fluke, the result of luck and unsophisticated manual methods.

UBIQUITOUS
Spinach is available year-round, and those ubiquitous bags of baby spinach have transformed this nutrient-dense vegetable into a convenience food

PREDILECTION

Mr. Hess a man with a published predilection for a classic Old Fashioned TORTUOUS Many farmworkers have come from remote villages without electricity, down tortuous gravel roads, hours from a semblance of a supermarket FLEDGLING
The DC Grey Market gives fledgling food entrepreneurs a taste of what it takes to run a business, and customers a taste of what they can do. Nick Fox GLIB
1. Politicians need to do more than provide glib answers to difficult questions. 2. the actor's glib portrayal of a drug addict 3. Or they could have saddled us with The Stranger, which had the mitigating charm of being glib and pretentious and would thus have kept the kids who were obviously going to end up at Bard happy. Joe Queenan, New York Times Book Review3 June 2007

TENDENTIOUS
He made some extremely tendentious remarks SCOTCH archaic : CUT, GASH, SCORE; also : WOUND <we have scotchedthe snake, not killed it Shakespeare> 2 : to put an end to <scotched rumors of a military takeover

FORESTALL

Some of us like to think big. We thought at the beginning of this debt crisis that it might be possible to reach a Grand Bargain. This deal would make a serious dent in the countrys awful debt problem. It would begin to reform entitlements. It would involve enough revenue to forestall ruinous cuts in domestic programs. PRECURSOR
1. <18th-century lyric poets like Robert Burns wereprecursors of the Romantics> 2. <a precursor of the modern eggplant>

PREEN

Watson didnt preen; not in the programming. So when some lawmakers preen their anti-abortion feathers but take steps that would result in more abortions and more women dying in childbirth, thats not governance, thats hypocrisy.