incipient, parched, prim, flinty, desiccated buzzards, craggy, sistrum. Hence the incipient rise of South-East Asia, which offers a big labour pool with low wages

Cheap Chinese labour has been crucial to the building of “Factory Asia”, the name given to the region’s complex of cross-border supply chains. In 2013 Asia accounted for 46.5%. of global manufacturing output. Since 2001, hourly manufacturing wages in China have risen by an average of 12% a year. Hence the incipient rise of South-East Asia, which offers a big labour pool with low wages http://econ.st/18GC7FS


A tightening grip


A SMALL factory in an industrial park outside Shanghai, churning out widgets you never see but probably use, provides a perfect snapshot of the state of global...
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Drowning Today, Parched Tomorrow
By STEVEN SOLOMON
Pakistan’s floods are a sign of an incipient water shortage.

British Museum

Time to face the music! Today’s ‪#‎MysteryObject‬ is a sistrum, a temple instrument from ancient Egypt http://ow.ly/KfN4c

Wyeth gave America a prim and flinty view of Puritan rectitude, starchily sentimental, through parched gray and brown pictures of spooky frame houses, desiccated fields, deserted beaches, circling buzzards and craggy-faced New Englanders.

A mash-up of memoir, travel guide and history, “The Most Beautiful Walk in the World” is the result of Baxter’s unwitting entry into the tour business. A friend running a week-long literary seminar persuades him to tag along on one of the event’s organized walks with a Harvard professor/Robert Redford look-alike. The academic, Baxter observes, turns out to be “more than dry. He was parched. Desiccated.”

flint
noun [C or U]
1 (a piece of) shiny grey or black stone that is like glass

2 (a piece of) stone or metal used in a musket to make it fire or in a cigarette lighter to produce a flame

flinty
adjective
1 made of or like flint:
a flinty material

2 severe and determined:
The head teacher has a rather flinty manner.


prim
adjective primmer, primmest DISAPPROVING
very formal and correct in behaviour and easily shocked by anything rude:
She's much too prim and proper to drink pints of beer.

primly
adverb
A primly dressed young woman ran up to the car.


starchy
adjective INFORMAL DISAPPROVING
behaving in a formal way and without humour:
Science museums have tried to shake off their somewhat starchy image by mounting exhibitions designed to draw in the crowds.

starchily
adverb INFORMAL DISAPPROVING

desiccated

adjective
1 dried:
100g of desiccated (= dried and broken into small pieces) coconut

2 DISAPPROVING not interesting or completely lacking in imagination:
All the party seems to have to offer is the same desiccated old ideas.

parch

pɑːtʃ/

verb

past tense: parched; past participle: parched; adjective: parched

1. 1.

   make or become dry through intense heat.

   "a piece of grassland parched by the sun"

   synonyms:

   dry, as dry as a bone, bone dry, dried up, dried out, arid, waterless, desiccated,dehydrated, sun-baked, baked, burned, scorched, seared, withered, shrivelled; More
2. 2.

   informal

   extremely thirsty.

   "I'm parched—I'll die without a drink"

buzzard
noun [C]
a large European bird that is a type of hawk, or a type of North American vulture that feeds on the flesh of dead animals

crag
noun [C]
a high rough mass of rock which sticks out from the land around it

craggy
adjective
1 having many crags:
a craggy coastline

2 describe a man's face that is quite roughly formed and has loose skin but is also attractive:
a craggy face
craggy features

sistrumLine breaks: sis|trum

Pronunciation: /ˈsɪstrəm/

Definition of sistrum in English:

noun (plural sistra ˈsɪstrə)

A musical instrument of ancient Egypt consisting of a metal frame with transverse metal rods which rattled when the instrument was shaken.

EXAMPLE SENTENCES

Origin

Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek seistron, fromseiein 'to shake'.

in·cip·i·ent (ĭn-sĭp'ē-ənt)

adj.

Beginning to exist or appear: detecting incipient tumors; an incipient personnel problem.

[Latin incipiēns, incipient-, present participle of incipere, to begin. See inception.]

incipiency in·cip'i·en·cy or in·cip'i·ence n.

incipiently in·cip'i·ent·ly adv.

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