cello
noun
Yo-Yo Ma is probably the best-known classical musician and Cello player in the world - but he’s also famous for his kindness, generosity, and commitment to using music to bring joy to others. - Kid Musicians, by Robin Stevenson.
gazelle
noun
tokamak
noun
In the earyly 1950s, the Soviet theoretician I. E. Tamm and A. D. Sakharov refined Thomason and Blackman’s analysis by including magnetic coils in addition to the toroidal geometry in a device they named the Tokamak. The Tokomak uses the electric current resulting from the plasma flow to generate a helical magnetic field to produce stability in the plasma. This was so successful that in 1968 the USSR announced the production of the first quasistationary thermonuclear fusion reaction at Novosibirsk. - Nuclear Power, A very short introduction, by Maxwell Irvine
chip
noun
banana chips
potato chip
chocolate chips
I had a sandwich and a bag of potato chips for lunch.
biscotto
noun
hustle
noun
- informal : a dishonest plan for getting money : scam
Not only is Bitcoin an ecological disaster, it’s a hustle, a ponzi scheme, a gift to criminals, and just stupid. There are so many useful ways to spend energy. - James Gosling
hindsight
noun
and as we know, hindsight is anything but 20/20.
Hindsight is twenty-twenty.
fentanyl
noun
Trump has demanded that Canada, Mexico and China curb the flow of fentanyl into the U.S. — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 1 Feb. 2025
cannabis
noun
Recreational cannabis is now legal in 24 states and three more could legalize some form of marijuana sales this year. — Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
marijuana
noun
anti-marijuana legislation
upend
verb
The security inspector upended my bag and dumped everything out.
A giant wave upended the surfers.
Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture
mean
adjective
When someone is mean, they are not nice or kind.
How could you be so mean?
nemesis
noun
Nemesis! Thank you. That was bugging me.
Oświęcim
Oświęcim was the site of the World War II Nazi concentration camp usually called Auschwitz.
culinary
adjective
culinary recipes
culinary schools
They serve a variety of culinary delights.
The notorious LVB was obsessively particular about making his own coffee. Unlike many composers of his day, he was a commoner and had the culinary skills for the task. It starts with grinding precisely 60 coffee beans — no more, no less. He would even count the beans out to be certain, and if he made a mistake in his count, he would start over. He did it even if he had visitors watching him. As the youngest, and without a noble title, young Beethoven was given kitchen duties, serving in the galley as a scullion.