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Orphan

June 25, 2015October 25, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word

14.033 and orphans?’

Ounce

June 25, 2015October 25, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word

12.020 but they know it to an ounce as a rule,

Ox

June 25, 2015October 25, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word

09.053 Where the kine and oxen feed!

Pallid

June 25, 2015October 3, 2019 lfsaldenbirch 10K, word

classical Latin pallidus pale, colourless, spec. from illness or strong emotion < pallēre to be pale (probably < the same Indo-European base as fallow adj.¹)
“pallid, adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, September 2019, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/136406. Accessed 3 October 2019.

13.019 Slowly it grew to a little globe of pallid light.

Palpitate

June 25, 2015October 25, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word

Pamper

June 25, 2015October 25, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word

10.037 and pampered

Pang

June 25, 2015October 25, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word

05.138 A pang of fear

Pant

June 25, 2015October 25, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word

02.071 so there he lay for a while panting,
05.105 as he panted
08.125 and panting.

Parapet

June 25, 2015October 25, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word

03.026 There was only a narrow bridge of stone without a parapet,

Paraphernalia

June 25, 2015October 25, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word

02.022 and paraphernalia.
04.013 and paraphernalia that they had brought with them.