CVA words for CSE 663, Fall 2008: ======================================================================== Bill Duncan aphelion Earth reaches perihelion in early January each year, and passes through its aphelion point near the start of July. ... Earth is about 3% further from the Sun at aphelion than it is at perihelion. Source: http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/physical_science/physics/mechanics/orbit/perihelion_aphelion.html&edu=high ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jesper Hede pondokkie She had a _pondokkie_ down in the Low Veld, on the Crocodile River, where she went sometimes in the winter to stay for a week or two on her own. Source: NEEDED ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Hoellig hysteria She was close to hysteria; that is, her voice was slurred, her eyes darted frantically from left to right as if to avoid confronting the scene, and her arms and hands trembled uncontrollably. Source: Dulin, Kenneth L. (1970), "Using Context Clues in Word Recognition and Comprehension", The Reading Teacher 23(5):440-445, 469. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nicolas Jackson sedum But now I'm up and little flames are gowing like sedums from the cracks in today's log wall, and I still have a little while before I have to drive Phoebe to school. Source: Baker, Nicholson (2003), A Box of Matches (New York: Random House): 28. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nan Meng pateroller On a riverbank in the cool of a summer evening two women struggle under a shower of silvery blue. They never expected to see each other again in this world and at that moment couldn't care less. But there on a summer night surrounded by bluefern the[y] did something together appropriately and well. A pateroller passing would have sniggered to see two throwaway people, two lawless outlaws--a slave and a barefoot whitewoman with unpinned hair--wrapping a ten-minute-old baby in the rags they wore. But no pateroller came and no preacher. The water sucked and swallowed itself beneath them. There was nothing to disturb them at their work. So they did it appropriately well. [Note: See further background at http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/CVA/CVATextsRapaportSeminar.pdf ] Source: Morrison, Tony. (1987, 2004). Beloved. New York: Vintage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Prentice chanteuse On stage chanteuse Adeleine Gladner, under her singing name Adely Gladly (pronounced to rhyme, Aderly Gladerly), yelled and crooned through her number "Formal Instigation" to applause and catcalls drunken but loud and totally heartfelt. ... Source: China Mieville, Iron Council