fartlek
Practicing quango-sponsored fartlek over the tumulose landscape, the various aiguilles and kames of Cecil County and sweltering in the xerothermic weather winnows the frangible men from those with legerity.
- quango: An organization or agency that is financed by a government but that acts independently of it.
- fartlek: 1. An athletic training technique, used especially in running, in which periods of intense effort alternate with periods of less strenuous effort in a continuous workout. 2. A workout using this technique.
- tumulose: Having many mounds or small hills.
- aiguille: 1. A sharp, pointed mountain peak. 2. A needle-shaped drill for boring holes in rock or masonry.
- kame: A short ridge or mound of sand and gravel deposited during the melting of glacial ice.
- swelter:
- xerothermic: 1. Both dry and hot: a xerothermic climate. 2. Adapted to or flourishing in an environment that is both dry and hot: xerothermic organisms.
- winnow: tr.v. 1a. To separate the chaff from (grain) by means of a current of air. b. To rid of undesirable parts. 2. To blow (chaff) off or away. 3. To blow away; scatter. 4. To blow on; fan: a breeze winnowing the tall grass. 5. To examine closely in order to separate the good from the bad; sift. 6a. To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate: winnowing out the errors in logic. b. To sort or select (a desirable part); extract. |intr.v. 1. To separate grain from chaff. 2. To separate the good from the bad. |n. 1. A device for winnowing grain. 2. An act of winnowing.
- frangible: Capable of being broken; breakable. See synonyms at fragile.
- legerity: Quickness or agility of mind or body.
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