10 Words and Their Meanings from Beevor on Rasputin

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1. Banya A steam bath-house, often made from logs
2. Barin A Russian country gentleman who owned an estate
3. Dusya Darling
4. Gornitsa A guest house or guest room for travellers and pilgrims
5. Hieromonk A monk who has also been ordained as a priest, or a priest who becomes tonsured later Izba A simple peasant house, often a log cabin caulked with moss
6. Moujik Typical Russian peasant
7. Okhrana Tsarist secret police
8. Pogrom A riot, not just those anti-Semitic in nature
9. Starets A venerated elder of the Russian Orthodox Church
10. Strannik A wandering pilgrim

(Bonus: Tarantass A long, low four-wheeled cart which could be converted into a sled in winter)

Beevor, Antony. Rasputin: And the Downfall of the Romanovs. Orion.

10 Plum Words

1. Plum
2. Plume
3. Plump
4. Plumpen
5. Plummy
6. Plumage
7. Plummet
8. Plumber
9. Plumule
10. Plumbago

10 Pum words

1. PUM
2. Puma
3. Pump
4. Pumice
5. Pumpkin
6. Pumpking
7. Pummel
8. Pumpernickel
9. Pumelo
10. Pumpjack

Get over on your own side

The first 18 years of my life I lived in the same street with my parents. However, I spent the first five years in a different house. Until I was five, until just after my sister was born we lived in No 5. But then we moved across the street to No 12, as on that side the houses had more bedrooms. I remember when I was still living in No 5 being told by kids from the other side to "get over your own side" which was rather mean, although I tended to stare as a kid and I probably annoyed them.

Wagons

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Several of my uncles were lorry drivers and bus drivers. They tended to refer to their lorries as wagons, a  northern rather than a Welsh expression. The term artic (short for articulated) used to confuse me. I thought these might be refrigerated lorries.

10 Welsh Words Now In The OED

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1. Calennig, n. A New Year's gift. Also: the practice or custom observed on the morning of New Year's Day, usually by children, of going from door to door making a request (traditionally in the form of a song) for food, money, or other gifts
2. cawl, n.2 Soup
3. iechyd da, int. Cheers (lit good health)
4. mamgu, n. Grandmother (South Wales)
5. Senedd, n. (The Welsh) Parliament
6. sglods, n. Chips
7. tadcu, n. Grandfather (South Wales)
8. taid, n. Grandfather (North Wales)
9. twp, adj. (and n.) Stupid
10. ych a fi, int. Expressing disgust or disdain

10 Izzard Words

1. Izzard (zed)
2. Blizzard (severe snowstorm)
3. Dizzard (foolish person)
4. Gizzard (part of a bird's stomach)
5. Lizard (reptile)
6. Nizzard (someone from Nice or dialect spoken there)
7. Quizard (slang for someone good at quizzes)
8. Scissored (cut with scissors)
9. Vizard (mask or disguise)
10. Wizard (man with magical powers)

10 Scavenger words

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There was a news article recently about mudlarks. It got me thinking of these various terms.

1. Beachcomber (someone who walks along a beach looking for valuable or interesting items)
2. Mudlark (someone who scavenfes in river mud lookiung forobjets of value)
3. Scavenger (someone who searches for and collects discarded items)
4. Forager (someone who searches widely for food or provisions)
5. Treasure hunter (someone who searches for suken, buried, lost or hidden treasure and other artifacts)
6. Scrounger (someone who searches about and turns up something needed from whatever source available)
7. Rummager (someone who searches for soemthingdifficult to find among other things)
8. Gatherer (someone who collects things or forages for them)
9. Collecter (someone who collects objects togerher, ususally becasue they are valuable or interestng)
10. Hoarder (someone who collects large amouonts of something and keeps it for themselves, often ina  secret place)

(A detectorist is someone whose hobby is usinga metal detector to locate lost coins, etc)

Better Than Aaron

Rather than Moses, Aaron or a Levite - all sinners, all men with weaknesses and subject to death - it is God manifest in the flesh who ministers now. He died once but soon rose and now lives forever. His person is marked by every divine and human perfection. He is “a Son over God's house” not merely its builder and so is worthy of more honour. Further, the covenant he administers is “founded on better promises”. Christ has greater blessings to give and there is a greater certainty of receiving them than was the case under the old covenant.

Christ's administration is also greater and more glorious as regards place and manner. We can think of a number of contrasts.

• Aaron went into an earthly, Christ into a heavenly sanctuary.
• Aaron stood before the mercy seat, Christ is near the Father of mercy himself.
• Aaron wore clothing that spoke symbolically of glory, Christ is now clothed with real and substantial glory.
• Aaron knew God's symbolic presence on earth for a while, Christ is in God's immediate presence in heaven forever.
• Aaron knew a measure of respect and honour from fellow sinners, Christ is adored and honoured by all the holy angels and the spirits of just men made perfect.
• Aaron ministered “a shadow of the good things that are coming”, Christ gives “the realities themselves” (Hebrews 10:1) - the Spirit, righteousness, pardon, grace and eternal life.
• Aaron was under a cloud, Christ “at the Father's right hand, is in the clearest light and brightest glory” (Hurrion).

From my book What Jesus is doing now, pp 69, 70

10 Marriage words

1. Tied the knot

2. Entered wedlock

3. Entered the marriage bond

4. Entered into marital union

5. Became yoked together

6. Entered the conjugal state (conjugal = yoked together)

7. Got hitched (a hitch is a type of knot)

8. Were united in marriage

9. Became attached to one another

10. Were joined in holy matrimony