Jimmy Carter
39th President of the United States, Philanthropist, Nobel Peace Prize awardee.
Disinclination
Reluctance, Unwillingness, Indisposition (Noun).
Calvin Coolidge
30th President of the United States, also a Republican Lawyer.
Interlocutor
Someone engaged in a conversation (Noun).
Vegetal
Herbal, Botanic (Adjective).
Brackish
Salty, Saline (Adjective).
Swirling
Whirling, Billowing, Spiralling (Adjective).
Collide
Clash, Conflict, Disagree (Verb).
Frank Freidel
Biographer of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Erudition
Knowledge, Scholarship, Learning (Noun).
Detestation
Disgust, Abhorrence, Abomination (Noun).
Beguiled
Charmed, Attracted, Captivated (Adjective).
Charles de Gaulle
French army general against the Nazi Germany.
Rubicund
Reddish, Ruddy (Adjective).
Annus Horribilis
Latin Phrase for “Horrible Year” (Noun).
Execrable
Appalling, Awful, Dreadful (Adjective).
Vulnerable
Endangered, At Peril (Adjective).
Voluble
Endangered, At Peril (Adjective). Talkative, Wordy, Garrulous (Adjective).
Recherché du temps perdu
French, “Research of Time Past”. This is an allusion to Marcel Proust’s work, À la recherché du temps perdu, translated as In Search of Lost Time.
Coup de foudre
French “Thunderbolt”. Idiomatically, it means “bolt from the blue”, a sudden and unforeseen event.
Intrigued
Interested, Fascinated, Attracted (Adjective).
Waning
Decreasing, Diminishing, Disappearing (Adjective).
Concomitant
Connected, Linked, Related (Adjective).
Assuaged
Alleviated, Relieved, Soothed (Adjective).
Resentfully
Indignantly, Exasperatedly (Adverb).
Precocious
Advanced, Forward, Mature (Adjective).
Reverently
Respectfully (Adverb).
Tensely
Nervously, Worriedly, Anxiously (Adverb).
Diminishing
Decreasing, Declining, Deprecating (Adjective).
Burgeoning
Booming, Mushrooming, Increasing exponentially (Adjective).
Irradiate
Brighten, Illuminate, Light up (Verb).
