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verb

talk at length, especially in an inflated or empty way.

adj. weird and sinister or ghostly. "an eldritch screech"

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Atentamente in Spanish translates to "sincerely" or "yours faithfully" in English, used as a polite closing in formal letters and emails.

Atentamente literally means "attentively" or "carefully," used to describe how someone is listening, reading, or observing.

In common usage, dusk and twilight are often used interchangeably, referring to the period between sunset and nightfall. 

However, technically: Twilight refers to the period when the sun is below the horizon but the sky is still somewhat light due to atmospheric refraction. Dusk, on the other hand, marks the end of twilight, when the sky becomes fully dark. 

The seven factors of awakening (bojjhaṅga):

Mindfulness (sati)

Investigation (dhamma-vicaya)

Energy (vīriya)

Rapture (pīti)

Tranquility (passaddhi)

Concentration (samādhi)

Equanimity (upekkhā)

They are traditionally thought of in three groups:

One balancing factor: Mindfulness

Three energizing factors: Investigation, Energy, and Rapture

Three calming factors: Tranquility, Concentration, and Equanimity

Because Awakening is divided into balancing, energizing, and calming factors, it is a practical support for working with the fluctuating energies of our body, nervous system, and mind.

>> Read more about these 7 factors here. <<

In the fourth foundation of mindfulness described in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta (MN 10), the five hindrances are the obstructive qualities we work to diminish in our practice, while the seven factors is the list of skillful qualities to develop.

The five hindrances (nīvaraṇa) are:

Sensual desire (kāmacchanda)

Ill will (vyāpāda)

Sloth and torpor (thīna-middha)

Restlessness and worry (uddhacca-kukkucca)

a rhetorical device where a part of something is used to refer to the whole, or the whole to refer to a part. 

Examples: Part for whole: • "She has a new set of wheels" (wheels represent the car).  • "All hands on deck" (hands represent the entire crew).  • "The city came out to celebrate the victory" (city refers to the people living in it).  Whole for part: • "Germany won the match" (Germany refers to the German soccer team).  • "The White House announced a new policy" (referring to the President or administration). 

A warren is a network of underground tunnels and burrows that rabbits live in. Rabbits are social animals that live in groups called colonies, and warrens are where these colonies live.

Most passages in a warren are interconnected and have side pockets where individual families live.

obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.

noun

Type: Appreciative, augmentative.

Examples:

perro (dog) – perrote (big dog)

lengua (tongue) – lenguota (big tongue)

Example sentence:

¡Vaya perrote! Parece una vaca. What a dog! It looks like a cow.

2. -azo, -aza

Type: Appreciative, augmentative.

Examples:

coche (car) – cochazo (great car)

mujer (woman) – mujeraza (great woman)

Example sentence:

of or involving right angles; at right angles.

noun

a bear, especially in children's fables. 

Chambray and denim share some fundamental commonalities: They’re made by weaving cotton fabrics together.

Denim is heavier and more rugged, because its construction uses a twill weave, which doubles the strands of thread and weaves them into more of a diagonal pattern.

On March 23, 1839, the initials “O.K.” were first published in The Boston Morning Post. Meant as an abbreviation for “oll korrect,” a popular slang misspelling of “all correct” at the time.

During the late 1830s, it was a favorite practice among younger, educated circles to misspell words intentionally, then abbreviate them and use them as slang when talking to one another. Just as teenagers today have their own slang based on distortions of common words, such as [“rizz” for “charisma”], the “in crowd” of the 1830s had a whole host of slang terms they abbreviated. Popular abbreviations included “KY” for “No use” (“know yuse”), “KG” for “No go” (“Know go”), and “OW” for all right (“oll wright”).