Lillian Crook & Jim Fuglie

Red Oak House is the home of Jim Fuglie and Lillian Crook. We love gardening, camping & hiking, fishing & hunting, birds & books. We are writers & bloggers.

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Photo credit @WildDakotaWoman

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New Red Oak tree photo in autumn today @RedOakHouse

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Word of the Day is on hiatus until the intensive gardening season has passed. You may have already noticed.

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@RedOakHouse Garden Notes no. 42: a mostly cool June https://t.co/Taap0mc2np

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Red Oak House Book Sale next Saturday! https://t.co/I2Xq5mUXzK

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BOOKS FOR SALE Saturday, June 2, starting about 9:00 am, under the branches of the State Champion Red Oak Tree 920 Arthur Drive in Bismarck. Good books priced right. Jim & Lillian, Ken Rogers & Kevin Carvell.

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Red Oak House Word of the Day: Beeline. Early 19th century: The straight line a forager bee takes when it finds nectar and returns to the hive to let the other bees know about it. Notification is by a Waggle Dance. The other bees then fly directly to the nectar on a "beeline."

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Word of the Day: nom de plume. Fictitious name, especially used by an author. Early 19th century: formed in English from French words, to render the sense ‘pen name,’ on the pattern of nom de guerre . https://t.co/zyq1C8Q6wJ

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Red Oak House Word of the Day: shambolic. Adjective (BRITISH) informal. Chaotic, disorganized, or mismanaged. A newish word of the 1970s: from shambles, probably on the pattern of symbolic.

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Red Oak House Word of the Day: rotogravure. A printing system using a rotary press with intaglio cylinders, typically running at high speed and used for long print runs of magazines and stamps. Early 20th century: from German Rotogravur, part of the name of a printing company.

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Red Oak House Word of the Day: elation. Great happiness and exhilaration. Late Middle English: from Old French elacion, from Latin elat- ‘raised,’ from the verb efferre (see elate).

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Red Oak House Word of the Day: defenestration. 1. formal (humorous): act of throwing someone or something out a window. 2. informal: dismissing someone from a position of power or authority.
early 17th c.: from modern Latin from de- ‘down from’ + Latin fenestra ‘window.’

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Red Oak House Word of the Day: expiation. Act of making amends or reparation for guilt or wrongdoing. Late 16th century (in the sense ‘end by suffering it to the full’): from Latin expiat- ‘appeased by sacrifice,’ from the verb expiare, from ex- ‘out’ + piare (from pius ‘pious’).

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Red Oak House Word of the Day: quisling. A traitor who collaborates with an enemy force occupying their country. World War II: from the name of Major Vidkun Quisling (1887–1945), the Norwegian army officer and diplomat who ruled Norway on behalf of the German occupying forces.

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Red Oak House Word of the Day: bereft.
Archaic past participle of bereave, meaning deprived of something. Old English bereafian "to deprive of, take away by violence, seize, rob," from be- + reafian "rob, plunder," from Proto-Germanic *raubojanan, from PIE *reup- "to snatch"

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Red Oak House Word of the Day: bliss. Perfect happiness or great joy. From the Old English blīths, of Germanic origin; related to blithe. Related to Dutch blijde which also means happy or joyous.

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Red Oak House Words of the Day: Witch hunt. A search for and subsequent persecution of a supposed witch. or A campaign directed against a person or group holding unorthodox or unpopular views. Both apply.

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Red Oak House Word of the Day: Gaslighting. To manipulate (someone) by psychological means, presenting something to the victim to make them doubt their own memory, perception and quite often, their sanity. From the play “Gas Light.”

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Red Oak House Word of the Day: Tariff. A tax paid on a particular class of imports or exports. A way to effectively transfer money from consumers to government treasuries.