sideshow, paroxyxm, embolism, antagonism. enmity, pulmonary embolism

Turkey needs friendship with America more than ever. Instead, in a paroxysm of post-coup paranoia, Mr Erdogan is putting the entire alliance at risk

Working From Home, Without the Sideshows

With a little organization, it can be as productive as working at the office.

China-Japan dispute lifts lid on enmity

Morgan Stanley Conflict is No Sideshow The extreme enmity between Morgan Stanley co-heads Colm Kelleher and Paul Taubman detailed in a recent Bloomberg article is not a unique occurrence among the senior executives of investment banks, The Epicurean Dealmaker writes. 





In America, a sideshow is an extra, secondary production associated with a circus, carnival, fair or other such attraction.

an·tag·o·nism (ăn-tăg'ə-nĭz'əm) n.

1. Hostility that results in active resistance, opposition, or contentiousness. See synonyms at enmity.
2. The condition of being an opposing principle, force, or factor: the inherent antagonism of capitalism and socialism.
3. Biochemistry. Interference in the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure.

enmity[en・mi・ty]

• 発音記号[énməti]

[名][C][U]((形式))（…に対する）憎悪, 憎しみ, 恨み, 悪意；対立((with, toward, against, for ...))

be at enmity with ...
…と反目している, に敵意をいだいている

cherish enmity against ...
…に恨みをいだく.

［中フランス語←俗ラテン語inimīcitāt （in-ない＋amīcus友だちの＋-ITY＝友だちでない状態）. △ENEMY］




栓塞
An embolism is an obstruction in a blood vessel due to a blood clot or other foreign matter that gets stuck while traveling through the bloodstream. The plural of embolism is emboli.

 pulmonary embolism
肺栓塞

par·ox·ysm (păr'ək-sĭz'əm)
n.

1. A sudden outburst of emotion or action: a paroxysm of laughter.
2. 1. A sudden attack, recurrence, or intensification of a disease.
   2. A spasm or fit; a convulsion.

[Middle English paroxism, periodic attack of a disease, from Medieval Latin paroxysmus, from Greek paroxusmos, from paroxūnein, to stimulate, irritate : para-, intensive pref.; see para-¹ + oxūnein, to goad, sharpen (from oxus, sharp).]

NOUN

1A sudden attack or outburst of a particular emotion or activity:a paroxysm of weeping

More example sentencesSynonyms

1.1Medicine A sudden recurrence or attack of a disease:paroxysms of ataxia and shaking

paroxysmal par'ox·ys'mal (-ək-sĭz'məl) adj.
paroxysmally par'ox·ys'mal·ly adv.