29 April 2016

• Nugatory: Of no value or importance
• The cardinal points used to be firmly located in the English-speaking world, but now the needle swings erratically to less developed markets like ours, where the numbers are nugatory. (Pratik Kanjilal) 
• Strychnine: A bitter and highly poisonous compound obtained from nux vomica and related plants.  
• Here, an English language book, which is well received might sell only 2000 copies, a figure which would cause a London publisher to reach for the strychnine. (Pratik Kanjilal) 
• Evanescent: Vanishing, fading away, fleeting 
• The second is in that evanescent moment after a group has formed but its hierarchy has not. (Jerry Useem)