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Welcome back to my new weekly series, Vocab 128, in which I sit down with pen and paper and write 128 words beginning with the same letter, in more or less the order that I think of them, before scanning the page and posting it here. The result is a flex of my vocabulary muscles, an exposure of my handwriting to the world, and perhaps an insight into the psychology of my word associations.

Generally, I avoid words that are merely alternate forms of other words, and when I think of such a word I generally default to the appropriate noun form. Proper nouns I exclude as a rule (but we’ll see how that goes once I get to X).

Naturally, after struggling to think of any words at all at various points, I’ve now thought of a dozen others that I can’t believe didn’t immediately spring to mind. Brains work strangely.

This week’s definition(!) from American Heritage Dictionary:

dhole (dōl)

n.

A wild Asian dog (Cuon alpinus) having reddish fur and large ears.

[Perhaps from Kannada tōḷa, wolf.]