ghoul, ghoulish, goulash, simplicity, hodgepodge, morbid, avatar

HKFP_Voices: "I am disappointed that I will not have time to write about China – and will most likely not be alive to see the Communist Party there suffer the same fate as the Soviet one. I have enough confidence in the human race to believe that even their goulash of state-run capitalism with an indeterminate red sauce will not be palatable in the long run.” – Robert Conquest, who passed away last week

Christopher Benfey on “the odd, the astonishing, the bizarre” and ghoulish works of Katsushika Hokusai

Some Japanese Ghosts by Christopher Benfey

Japanese ghosts have returned this summer to haunt my dreams, summoned by a striking Katsushika Hokusai exhibition in Boston, and by other stray events that stirred up spectral associations with the Japanese...

NYBOOKS.COM

Happy Halloween! Enjoy ghoulish work from the collection on our Wicked Works Pinterest board: http://met.org/1g5oPzS


"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art." — Frédéric Chopin

‘Breed’

By CHASE NOVAK
Reviewed by JANET MASLIN

Scott Spencer’s “Breed,” written under the name Chase Novak, is a ghoulish family tale set mostly in Manhattan.

Many of the 14,000 or so students who have taken Harvard’s wildly popular course “Justice” with Michael J. Sandel over the years have heard the rumor that their professor has a television avatar: Montgomery Burns, Homer Simpson’s soulless ghoul of a boss at Springfield’s nuclear power plant.


He also had a taste for the ghoulish, beginning his 1988 memoir Travels with the legend: "It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw."




ghoul
(gūl) 

n.

1. One who delights in the revolting, morbid, or loathsome.
2. A grave robber.
3. An evil spirit or demon in Muslim folklore believed to plunder graves and feed on corpses.

[Arabic ġūl, from ġāla, to seize, snatch.]

ghoulish ghoul'ish adj.
ghoulishly ghoul'ish·ly adv.
ghoulishness ghoul'ish·ness n.
吃屍鬼式

WordNet: ghoulish

Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.
The adjective has one meaning:
Meaning #1: suggesting the horror of death and decay
Synonym: morbid

ghoul

Line breaks: ghoul

Pronunciation: /ɡuːl /

NOUN

1An evil spirit or phantom, especially one supposed torob graves and feed on dead bodies.

2A person morbidly interested in death or disaster.

Origin

late 18th century: from Arabic ġūl, a desert demon believed to rob graves and devour corpses.

ghoulish

Line breaks: ghoul|ish

Pronunciation: /ˈɡuːlɪʃ /

ADJECTIVE

1Resembling or characteristic of a ghoul:a ghoulish mask

2 Morbidly interested in death or disaster:

she told the story with ghoulish relish

Derivatives

ghoulishly ADVERB

ghoulishness NOUN

Word of the Day:
goulash (GOO-lahsh, -lash)

noun:
1. A mixture of disparate elements; hodgepodge.
2. A stew of meat and vegetables, seasoned with paprika.
3. In the game of bridge, a round played with hands produced by a rearrangement of previously dealt cards.

Etymology
From Hungarian gulyás, short for gulyáshús (herdsman's meat), from gulya (herdsman) + hús (meat).

Usage
"Much of what we know is little more than a goulash of disparate and contradictory ideas, rather than accessible clarity." — Ian Mann; Secrets to Being the Cat's Whiskers; The Times (Johannesburg, South Africa); Jan 31, 2010.


The Big Winners in Skype Deal: A hodgepodge of investors - including a private equity firm, a pension fund and a venture capitalist - stand to reap big gains from Microsoft's planned $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype. DealBook breaks down how each will profit.
hotpotch

• [hɑ'tʃpɑ`tʃ | hɔ'tʃpɔ`tʃ]

[名]

1 [U]ホッチポッチ：野菜や肉のはいった濃いスープまたはシチュー.

2 ((a 〜))((英略式))（…の）ごった混ぜ, 寄せ集め（((米))hodgepodge）((of ...)).

3 《法律》財産の統合［併合, 合算］.