“A Brilliant Conspiracy” Episode 8.

Blurb & other Episodes

 

Healthcare, insists Jamila, keeps life meaningfully noble.

Obtaining perpetrators’ quiddity easily, requires forensic DNA sequencing techniques unrivalled by victimology.

Accusers weakly crack, “Xanthippe, yet zaftig goddess.”

Glossary:

Quiddity         1. Philosophy – the inherent nature or essence of someone or something.

2. a distinctive feature; a peculiarity.

Xanthippe       ill-tempered woman

Zaftig              having a full, rounded figure

 

Archibald’s ‘Horse of the Day’

http://www.paulaura.com/betgloss.htm

Hickstead allows me some Hedging, with a showjumper changing the House rules. [After finishing a round, Hickstead died of an aortic rupture]

 

Jamila’s ‘Daily Poison’

http://www.britannica.com/science/poison-biochemistry/Types-of-poison#ref396648

Honeybee (Apis species);

Distribution: worldwide;

Toxic principle: neurotoxin, hemolytic, melittin, hyaluronidase, phospholipase A, histamine, and others;

Symptoms: sting produces acute local pain or burning sensation, blanching at the site of the sting surrounded by a zone of redness, and itching; local symptoms usually disappear after 24 hours; severe cases may develop massive swelling, redness, shock, prostration, vomiting, rapid heartbeat, respiratory distress, trembling, coma, and death; it is estimated that 500 stings delivered in a short period of time can provide a lethal dose to a human; bees kill more people in the United States than do venomous reptiles.

 

Word Links

http://www.wordfind.com/

http://phrontistery.info/glossaries.html

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/wordlist/adverbs.shtml

https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/prepositions-list.htm

 

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The Challenge runs over 26 days – with Sundays off for good behaviour – and each day will be based on the alphabet, from A through to Z.

Read more about the Challenge I set myself in my Theme Reveal:

Blogging from A to Z Challenge Theme Reveal 2016

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