DEFINING OPINIONS, third octet

 

previous poetic posts:
(first octet):
academically
crepuscular
envision

farce

hamuli

haunch

Haversian canals

hoard

(second octet);

hoarding

hoe

holdout

hole#1

hole #2

holler

hollow

homogenized (milk)

CURRENT CONTENTS (third octet):

Homunculus

Hone

Honey

Honk

Honorifics

Hooey

Hoot

Hopeful

Authors' Note:  Fawn, an aspiring limericist, had been advised to carefully hone one of her submitted verses.

Authors' Note:    The authors propose the above verse to define the neologism appiculture.

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Authors' Note: There's no denying that Holly the optimist has used a number of cliches in her speech; nor that often (always "unexpectedly") things come to a screeching halt.

Authors' Note: The biologic term hormone includes blood-borne "messenger molecules" such as adrenaline, insulin, cortisol, prolactin, melatonin, androgen and estrogen, as well as those with more easily discerned names such as thyroid hormone, growth hormone and anti-diuretic hormone.

The reader might be surprised to learn that a sober scientific journal "Hormones and Behavior" has been editing and publishing scientific papers in this field for over 50 years.

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