- noun
- A training process in which the student is medicated into a trance-like state that results in perfect recall.
- Origin
- Derived from the acronym EPT (‘education for particular tasks’).
- Source
- Stand on Zanzibar
- noun
- A child.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘progeny’.
- Source
- Stand on Zanzibar
- noun
- An archaeologist, patronizingly rendered into today’s speech by some of the more learned folk.
- Source
- The Crucible of Time
- noun
- A mount that allows a telescope to accurately follow the motion of the night sky.
- Origin
- Formed from ástron (a celestial body) and trópos (a turn).
- Source
- The Crucible of Time
- noun
- A creature that contracts its body when one end is in fresh water and the other in salt water, bred for use as a pump or motor.
- Source
- The Crucible of Time
- noun
- Specialised animal tissue bred to transmit signals over long distances.
- Source
- The Crucible of Time
- interjection
- Contraction of je suis d’accord.
- Origin
- Popularised by French Canadian hockey players in the twenty-first century.
- Source
- The Shockwave Rider