The words:
Invidiousness (adj):
Tending to cause animosity or imply a slight
Bucolic (adj) :
1. Relating to flocks or sheperds: pastoral
2. Rural: rustic
(n): A Pastoral poem
Inure (v) :
To make accustomed to something usually undesirable; harden
Desultory (adj):
1. Marked by lack of continuity : disconnected
2. Aimless
Mulct(n): A penalty, especially a fine
(v) : 1. to penalize, esp. by fining
2. To defraud, swindle
Bruxism (n):
the habit of unconsciously gritting or grinding the teeth especially in situations of stress or during sleep
Antipode (n):
A direct opposite
Monopsony (n):
An olgilopsony limited to one buyer
This lead me to look up olgilopsony, which means: a market system in which each of a few buyers exerts a disproportionant influence on the market.
Superannuated (adj) :
1. Retired from active duty because of age or infirmity
2. Obsolete
The Winner of the Word Box is ....
Bucolic!!
According to Wikapedia,
"is a noun originally describing a type of pastoral poetry that praises rural life over that of the city. The manner of a bucolic is usually somewhat fantastic, and the poetry tends to contrast the pleasant and pure life of the country with the corrupt and corrosive world of society. The term derives from Virgil, and "Bucolics" is a reference to a collection of poems. One set of bucolics was written by Virgil, while Theocritus and others also wrote collections of rusticated poems. In contemporary poetry, W. H. Auden wrote a sequence known as "Bucolics.""
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