Weekend Wrap-Up and new words

Went to Carne Station in Hongdae on Saturday. It was an interesting place as I had not seen such a high concentration of white people in Korea. Mind you, there were plenty of Koreans too.

Though for the longest time I was half-expecting clowns and circus acts as my collegues were calling it 'Carney Station'. Small hands and cabbage in deed.

Been a long time coming but these are some words of interest from what I've read over the last few weeks. I'll try to remember where I got these words too.

mor·i·bund
–adjective
1. in a dying state; near death.
2. on the verge of extinction or termination.
3. not progressing or advancing; stagnant: a moribund political party.


sop·o·rif·ic
–adjective
1. causing or tending to cause sleep.
2. pertaining to or characterized by sleep or sleepiness; sleepy; drowsy.
–noun
3. something that causes sleep, as a medicine or drug.
-adverb
sop·o·rif·i·cal·ly


untrammelled
-adjective
not confined or limited
*comes from Latin macula meaning "mesh"


scarp·er
–verb (used without object) British. to flee or depart suddenly, esp. without having paid one's bills.
*comes from Italian scappare to flee


dep·i·late
–verb (used with object), -lat·ed, -lat·ing. to remove the hair from (hides, skin, etc.).
Vocab Lesson


sty·mie
–noun
1. Golf. (on a putting green) an instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
2. a situation or problem presenting such difficulties as to discourage or defeat any attempt to deal with or resolve it.
–verb (used with object)
3. to hinder, block, or thwart.


flot·sam
–noun
1. the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on the water.
2. material or refuse floating on water.
3. useless or unimportant items; odds and ends.
4. a vagrant, penniless population: the flotsam of the city slums in medieval Europe.


jet·sam
–noun
goods cast overboard deliberately, as to lighten a vessel or improve its stability in an emergency, which sink where jettisoned or are washed ashore.


lag·an
–noun Law.
anything sunk in the sea, but attached to a buoy or the like so that it may be recovered.


pur·view
–noun
1. the range of operation, authority, control, concern, etc.
2. the range of vision, insight, or understanding.
3. Law.
a. that which is provided or enacted in a statute, as distinguished from the preamble.
b. the purpose or scope of a statute.
4. the full scope or compass of any document, statement, subject, book, etc.