[Last updated 05/01/2021.] | | "[T]here's a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one | long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man | is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There'll be | a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose." | | "Where?" | | "In the 'word-memory' section," he said, epexegetically. | | -- The Great Automatic Grammatizer, Roald Dahl | I love words. The way they look on paper, the way they sound out loud, the way they make your mouth feel when you say them. I am a word collector -- a lexical packrat -- a prisoner of vocabzkaban. New words I find are added here; the list is updated periodically. Some words and phrases repeat because my memory is imperfect. (New definitions of old words also end up here, from time to time...) My Knipe List /|/| / | / / / / ( / | (___| ___ ___ ___ ( ___ (___ | )\ ) |\ | )| | )|___) | )| |___ | | / \_/ | \ | / | |__/ |__ |__/ | __/ |__ / | (epexegetically) preterite anatine** künstlerroman panegyric philology protuberant pannikin ambrosial palimpsest* samizdat* expurgate qualia oeillade machinate* sprezzatura** polysyndeton** sartorial* skunkworks rhoticity teratological prosaic L'esprit de l'escalier potemkin pusillanimous puerile pablum laconic teutonic in saecula saeculorum perfidious recondite catatonia kitsch kipple quid accidit edentate circumlocution prolixity desultory crotchety charlatan requisition commandeer effasure, an erasing anchorite fecundity bivouac abscond, deus abscondicus pinochle insouciant profligate ex nihilo fatuous anomie Weltanschauung pulchritude perfervid elegaic gedankenexperiment inflect dragoman prescind tendentious insalubrious motte and bailey dialectic prophylactic prurient acculturation post hoc ergo propter hoc snowclone quo vadis? hobgoblin ontology lazarus taxon hysteresis stochastic polysemy internecine tergiversate hermeneutics staid apotheosis dedesiderata* topos liminal non-diegetic jejeune certiorari bromides acerbity fiduciary annunciation (not "enunciation") homoscedasticity** supraparable neurasthenia motu proprio sacristy moribund testamentary recalcitrant febrile continent (the word has pun potential) epithet periphrases a relingo walk acme epitome doxastic yen (verb) irruption (ecology) pleiotropy cadmus* (to sow a dragon's tooth) infelicitous skerry extirpation allee effect depredation susten(t)ation funk island guillemots & guillemets prow gratuitous weft and warp discomfit bolide belemnite ammonite rudist lacuna codswallop tubercle broil palynologists benthic Signor-Lipps effect lilliput effect decadent gestation perspicuous thing (assembly) (the king is a thing!) tome currency (monetary adjective) vacillate putatively amanuensis inflorescence talmudic lianas austral and boreal gravid scleros- flotsam, jetsam, lagan, derelict* cay linn petroglyph encrustation pteropod sea butterfly ptero- brachio- zircon holo- anthro[po]- anthropocene turducken mesocosm candelabra subsidence obdurate vivarium blast fishing eschaton enfilades salvo mezzanine* scion gamut in loco parentis proscribe dialectic fritz bucolic exordium euphonious mammon execrable extirpate perambulate bulwark idem paean stultifying panacea cashiered diaeresis pareidolia supine mojombo poet shirt loquacious hawala abjured contrite aesthete preclude despot etiology temerity wallaby proteus phenomenon peregrination* barbiturate Caveat emptor proclivity deification duplicitous perspicacity diatribe languor Augean seigniorage Stanford emendations probity entente alacrity vizier legation blanchiment = money-laundering ripostes recalcitrance homesteader fantasists profligate disaffection redound dilatory telos ecclesiastical insular abeyance acolytes geriatric plenipotentiaries abrogated usufruct suzerainty sine que non proclivities propitious plenary indefeasible desultory co-extensive inchoate* draconian debellatio ex injuria jus non oritur pacta sunt servanda etiolated sui generis cenotaph sacral miscegenation vernacular hegemony sobriquet bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube cromulent primogeniture tanistry eremitic ecclesiastical warp and woof paroxysm philology legerdemain equanimity louche subaltern concomitant coparcener peccadillo contingency proselytism plebiscite nemine contradicente balustrade inchoate meum et tuum clemency clientelism bollards** chicanery nadir propinquity inure cockle magisterium erstwhile inchoate macguffin* Damnatio memoriae effluvia fascia anomie pusillanimously sabermetricians contra preferentem consilience** consigning intifada ennui diffidence perfidy complaisance pleonexia meum and tuum timorousness stare decisis perlustration odium theologicum prima facie expediencies preponderance il maestro di color che sanno ad misericordiam heterodox laity (vs. clergy) Socratici viri eo ipso, ipso facto agoraphobia effrontery abrogate monism de novo prima facie certiorari propounded proscribing polemic expounding normative coverture probative provincialism primacy suasion intransigence town-gown contradistinction teleologically subventions paean imprimatur abjuring obloquy internecine obiter dicta inchoate qua anisotropic conniption proscribes epithet nexus pro se dispositive putative passim animus seditious libel obloquy scholium duplicity ex-ante Grand Poobah picayune pettifogging nostradamus alembic naciancenes troupials cetaceans implacable poultice esparto incipient lugubrious seraphic concupiscence corpulence muriatic aqua regia scapular capon caladium daguerreotype repertory per omnia secula seculorum chimerical stentorian pianola brocade temerity soporific prostration encyclical lacerated laudanum implacable organdy charlatan curaçao cassock skein benzoin calabash carbine cornet convalescence inure exequies stropping reprisal amnesty de gustibus non est disputandum intransigence nadir recrudescence St. Elmo’s fire cloistered punctilious messianic indolence bodacious retinue anodyne itinerant soporific acceded convalescence catechism sacristy fecundity colic apotheosis abjection slough junta concordat invidious propounded vacillating hosannas mendacious risible flocculent** floccinaucinihilipilification salvos seigniorage vitiate pusillanimous preponderance dysphoric dispositive milquetoast* praxis quincunx quid pro quo grognard lich ansatz terpsichorean* exculpatory aubade lethean bipartite manticore leitmotif pontifical seigniorage venality turpitude salubrious intercessory pabulum ineluctable Saturnine Supernal Lugubriously Glutinous Dissimulation Deliquesce Coiffed Forbore Rashers Turbot Transmogrified* Prosaic Somnolence Perforce Neurasthenic Verve Tenebrous Imprecations Afreet Tyburn Tree Kipper Fauntleroy Obsolescent Orotund Lackadaisical Abalone Protean Revenant Simulacrum Velour Peccadilloes Philistines Inchoate Imperious Apostate Opobalsam Farangi* Eunuch Henotheist Castigates hapax legomenon Steles Intercession Loth Amphisbaenae Phantasmagoria Sibyl Simurgh Implacable Dismemberment Abrogation Bereavement Sempiternal* Miasmic* Dionysian Implacable Maunderings* Estancia Imprecations Putative Bolas Indigent Cordillera Borsalino Gabardine Primes inter pares Outré Peroration* Discomfiture Claque Budgerigars Bathos Ministrations Gnomic Pierrot Patchouli Simulacrum Rubicund Declivity Juggernaut Tannoy Paidea nobless oblige turpitude sprezzatura** orotund quiddity histrionically Repertory Acquiescent Paristan Depredations Alacrity The Golden Ass Probity Pastiche Argot Jingoistic Balustrade** Lambrakis Mote and beam Imperious Stasis Bowdlerize penitent bremsstrahlung anaphora enthymeme irredentist beleaguered zwanze* — self-deprecating humor in wartime brussels zeugma** (Dunlap's favorite rhetorical device, a figure of speech combining logically different ideas, such as [this is Gaby's example] "the farmers grew potatoes and bored") tant pis incisive excoriated ersatz melismatic* skeuomorph macte virtute* luthier epicurean episcopal ecumenical catholic (etymology) prognostic dialectic rococo prestidigitator Manchurian candidate saccade hirsute** pulchritude apostasy irascible burke* concomitant narthex antiphon catechism horror vacui mutatis mutandis fealty aporia conniption dole valedictory capitonym verlan vizard (vs. wizard) gonzo journalism roman à clef Roskomnadzor chorography ichnology affiance boulted ordure rivage aegis pharaonic lachrymal statists pastern palfrey legerity provender slovenry fetlock avuncular barouche approbation verboten prelate crescive salic lenity nomogram straphanger pelage immiserate lethologica** aptronym distal noctilucent eschatological woolgathering decadence redlining Lethean cerulean venial svengali zugzwang Conchoidal** Lacunae Vitiated Syncretism Neoplatonism Perdition tutelary Bagatelle Incunabulum ecce signum* Audi alteram partem inter alia* encomium falchion triptych itinerant satori suppuration onomancy cratylic epanalepsis usufruct** weltanschauung indicia ablative (grammar, but also matsci) perquisite crux (an unknown word) hamartia retinue epithet cucullus non facit monachum* concupiscible anodyne antanaclasis bedlam atavistic peripatetic peroration hortatory hagiographic imbroglio ekphrasis ensconced asseveration mimesis concomitant obeisance Potrzebie velleity logorrhoea shrive asperity gentian beatification salutary meliorist spruiking etiology posse comitatus non-teleological vacilando* concupiscent saudade* Ad astra per alia porci* perspicuous parturition picaresque bowdlerised dvoeverie, the Slavic idea of believing in Christian devils and pagan house-spirits Canticle demesne Chatham House Rule salutary melismatic noviny - "new" epic songs langue and parole (like fabula and syuzhet) contradictio in adjecto contradictio in terminis crapulous belvedere lugubrious perspicacity ekphrasis gestalt abbozzo** - from Greg Valiant's lecture notes on Good-Turing estimates for unseen words l'homme d'ondoyant et divers vaunted daffy kennings mulct solecism Alford plea nihilartikel / Mountweazel diptych demiurge heresiarch petitio principii ex ungue leonem abbatoir anoraks sitzprobe wandelprobe homily excoriated fronted adverbial incipit estoppel lumpen[proletariat] crinolines effrontery empyrean* linearithmic panopticon quiddity caduceus bitterlich sampling hagiographic roman-a-clef ronin telegenic superannuated vigorish ratiocination mete encomiums Bobolink sacerdotal bosovski - shoes traditionally left slightly unfinished for Russian funerals bullion stigmata aleatory scleronomous and rheonomous Hypostatic Union chiaroscuro (and Roscuro)* sfumato ansatz interregnum apotheosis abeyance sosialpornografi* ekphrasis* peristeronic* apocalypse, eucalyptus, calypso, hell** ossifrage (a cryptic cryptographic connection) Dextrarum iunctio Thaumaturgy Holy Unmercenaries Wonderworking unmercenary kudos, not escudos (from Knuth) Elysian malefit (as the opposite of benefit, e.g. in Tolkien) interstitial skaz Thagomizer spoliation einbahnstrasse augenblick theodicy chanticleer gesamtkunstwerk* The Three Princes of Serendip cerulean** syncretism silviculture pastiche eremetic creosote Homo unius libri ("what does it mean? it doesn't mean anything") Methodenstreit prolegomenon bravura demiurgical gerede - German "high gossip" hermeneutics amateur - amatore propitiatory abstemious hortus conclusus - "walled garden" invidia - the evil eye poiesis corrigenda Guilloché enantiomer racemic* (from the racemic form of tartaric acid, found in grapes) tendril perversion gormandize immanent (not imminent) bal-musette apotropaic pellucid seicento dispositif divinarelli pittorici syntagmatic denegation effaced apposite eucharistic*, when the representation becomes the thing itself, map becomes the territory (like in Lear), the menu becomes the food prosopopoeia caducous dyspepsia circumjacent pudency antinomia blindsight and aphantasia post-festum chrematistics - Aristotle's dual to economics, the art of endless (limitless, purposeless) wealth Auri Sacra Fames - damned thirst for gold (Virgil) chiasmus rondure proleptic ankylosed Index Librorum Prohibitorum pro tanto cutler conspectuity - vision or sight bisson - blind caterpillars of the commonwealth - moochers Interpellation hermeneutic gestalt Dasein Cautelous - wily Tarpeian rock mountebank hegemony Frankenstein veto Idiurus - the flying mouse lagniappe patagium frugivore antediluvian bedlam katzenjammer* (Marx - 18th Brumaire - hangover or cat's wings) blagueurs tenebrism primus/secunda inter pares pastoral (as a noun) attitudinizing Kloveniersdoelen maladroit pendant (as complementary art) pastiche pentimento bravura putti obeisance scumbled ineluctably gutta-percha scapular roiling otherness**, lightness** priapic palatine and pal[p]atine amerciaments saber and cowl, feudal ideology in petto, sub rosa in partibus infidelium, of another faith troglodytes leonine diocese episcopal see (catholicism) cephalophore abjection monobloc chair apperception plenitude causa sui vertiginously edenic tartuffe ephemeris malaphor (Patricia thinks I do this a lot; William Safire, Nixon's speechwriter, says "Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors.") Helen Keller: It comes over me that in the last two or three pages of this chapter I have used figures which will turn the laugh against me. Ah, here they are—the mixed metaphors mocking and strutting about before me, pointing to the bull in the china shop assailed by hailstones and the bugbears with pale looks, an unanalyzed species! Let them mock on. The words describe so exactly the atmosphere of jostling, tumbling ideas I live in that I will wink at them for once, and put on a deliberate air to say that my ideas of college have changed. cartouche extenuate eglantine bergomask choropleth servitor intransigent matura malinger proscenium syntagm pleonastic gymnosophists picaresque shivaree improvident aeriform bight concomitant expropriation terrene sublunary baroque vertiginous pungent, poignent, potent gloss* as in glossary Träskofiol* (shoe violin from Dreamers' Circus) prophylactic Alea iacta est enneagram desporting mukbang umwelt Vemödalen** - the fear that everything has already been done Homoousion and Homoiousian ("not one iota of difference") kenning - Norse forged words like ocean = whale road kayfabe, kayfabrication - pre-negotiated collaborative competition, e.g. in professional wrestling spomenik - Yugoslav concrete monuments atelier catena, catenary, concatenate stichic - from military for "aligned," front lines, poetic forms and military patterns procrustean bed dudeen farandole cruciferous (vegetables) ecce homo** granfalloon guignol Rumspringa round robin (see etymology) ratiocinative imp (falconry) jeremiad scatological thiotimoline periodic sentence Stagirite (Aristotle) Menippean satire georgic eclogue synchronicity* (Jung) pronoia seraphic audiate** (from Josh; see also, aphantasia) bedlam (John Ousterhout's description of gc failure) disklavier (Dan Tepfer) atavism** (reversing the game of life) cometary coma amuse-bouche ubi sunt* ("Where are they?") stadialism delectation anodyne faience boanthropy* equinoctial (Bishop's Sestina) myriahedral (like polyhedral, but more?) hysteron proteron adumbrate traduce metalepsis asprezza (vs. ease) kitbash (Kate Kinnear's thesis) dies irae monody aganippe (spring of the muses) gadding siste viator et lege** ("halt, traveler, and read" - on roman roadside tombs) ludology technology shear** - John's word for when different technologies advance at different rates, e.g. disk latency vs. memory size -> paging no longer makes sense voix céleste - organ stops with beat frequencies lomography - cheap camera photography pastiche guinea (has several meanings, for interesting reasons) chthonic** - dear, dear Matisse lissomely (brother gorilla, jake thackray) chrism, censer, chalice anamnesis* - loss of forgetfulness (PKD, how to build a universe that doesn't fall apart two days later) lambent* Dodecanese hierophany - a manifestation of the sacred propitiate bogart (the verb) rondure kulning call pinguid reconnoiter hieratic ogived trimaran cupola moue payola enfilade* materiel (as opposed to personnel) menhaden cantus firmus tegument multiparous apostasy valetudinarian stelliferous quonset somnolent demurs arroyo desperados Californiana adenoidal dross freimarke - stamp hiraeth numen, numina gustatory Brodie (as in jump) cataclysm priistas interregnum jitney flinders beaverboard plowshare, coulter PBX hipshot nicht wahr? Biedermeier oubliette solmization gewehr and büchse Zimmerbild panem et circenses tempus fugit stearin feuilleton epigone maieutics anagnorisis Bowdlerized (in reverse?) poetaster* sodality harquebuses stilettos muscatel steins enervated de bonis non peccadillo absolution* (and ablution) lambent carpaccio Teuthology flagrante delicto zettelkasten deontic avuncular conniption hapax hapax legomenon razzamatazz diaristic pellucid defowlerize** (Nabokov on translating Pushkin, potentially a hapax?) paraphrast (someone who paraphrases) rebarbative reprobate rodomontade* plangent quadrille quiddity poetaster Lothario sylvan* quaff durachkí leas verst, sazhen palaver* cuirassiers lorgnette madrigal missive languor osmotically paronomasia meridian (has many meanings) sententious sallet investment (etymologically related to "vetement" - to invest is to clothe) invigilating fusillade halberdiers stratagem poniard expiatory acedia* praeteritio synoeciosis - composition of contraries in Elizabethan rhetoric ("mirth in funeral, dirge in marriage") cabinet noir hendiadys* (see also, zeugma, syllepsis, hysteron proteron) unctuousness bathos orotundity sententious rodomontade suppliance solus anima rachises** vitiated excursus tendentious bardolatry tercentenary aboulia congeries transpicuous cathectic, cathexis vigorish (Persi's term for the house's edge) aubade parthenogenesis weregild (from Saxo Grammaticus) jantelagen / Jante's law* parimutuel (Don Ylvisaker from UCLA on the CA lottery's "fortune cookie disaster" with repeated numbers) immanent and imminent chiasmus, chiasmic* pneumatology (not what you think, not pneumatics) charnel* supine veridical rapscallion* columbarium incunables malaxage (kneading pottery clay) monotreme (platypus? easter bunny?) midrash paschal abrogate celebrant churlish Lollardy crede, et manducasti ciborium, paten, corporale, maniple anamnesis* new historicism* (I think I'd make a good new historicist) dryad teleuton*, envoi, tornada salal avuncular dyadic metempiric - beyond experience aril* - the part of a pomegranate seed that's not the seed esemplastic** - M finds the best word for Dreamers' Circus. Coleridge comes to mind: for calling imagination the "esemplastic power" and for calling poetry the "best words in the best order." I think also about the lasagna. drupelet - like an aril saltation** - to leap, as in the BNP(?), another M word note: stiny uses "saltation" in relation to "gestalt" (in the star-chevron-triangle section); oddly, the etymologies give the words opposite "meanings." i wonder further about "stellation": are *stel- and *ster- the same? alectryon (chicken god) askesis atopy (unclassifiability, especially in relation to love) lover (okay, okay, we all know this word - but here is Roland Barthes' definition: "the one who waits") limerence asepsis nasturtiums jacaranda divagate szeretlek - "first-person singular indicative present second-person object definite of szeret" - that is, "I love you" - Hungarian holophrase phatic satori doxa and episteme merycism loquela - the twiddling of the wound (metaphorically) affective - "Like a bad concert hall, affective space contains dead spots where the sound fails to circulate. --The perfect interlocutor, the friend, is he not the one who constructs around you the greatest possible resonance? Cannot friendship be defined as a space with total sonority?" (see also: Nelle Fertig's poem) kigo - season-word in a haiku aubade exiguous hypostases sesquipedalian tapinosis thaumasmus topothesia astrothesia dendrographia* - these are all from silva rhetoricae on rhetoric.byu.edu kerf** - matthew says this is the bit that vaporizes when you laser cut something (can we apply "kerf" to the scheduling fragmentation problem? 10-minute breaks vaporize into temporal kerf!) ipseity* - selfhood syncope - losing consciousness because of low blood pressure, OR dropping syllables from a word (e.g. "probably") tergiversate geminate falutin (as in high-) dissimulation diaphanous** - M uses this to describe my past - and indeed it is - even and especially to myself - gossamer soppressata terete**, stout, glabrous**, and sometimes slightly reddish - M finds a description of bloodroot teleoanticipation* - related to pacing, e.g. with athletes - but also, mykel's green bananas from trader joe's? mescal taarof* introrse ligulate cliché - "a poem that won" - this definition is due to craig arnold (who speaks about the goodness in bad love poetry in an interview with jeremy richards) monocoque bàofùxìng áoyè - "revenge bedtime procrastination" kolaveri aphonia and aphasia chinotto ontic - (as opposed to antic, when describing dispositions - from M, of course) murmuration - from siken's poem gashapon / gacha game concomitant profligate corium contused bracteate** - pineapple spikes or thin gold ornaments intercorporeality* - Merleau-Ponty defines a mode of embodied coexistence-communication apostates shoshin - to have a beginner's mind (even as an expert) lanugo - fine hair covering newborns aleatory - and epistemic - uncertainty (from a greg-group meeting!) renrou sousuo - literally translated as “human flesh search” - brainpower powered search engine - used often for doxxing pharmakos - ritual sacrifice of human scapegoat - comes from "pharmakon," itself a duality - sacrifice is both medicine and poison - Derrida - see also the brass/bronze serpent in Numbers 21:9 acheiropoieton* - art that comes into being without hands turbinate bivouac pinochle profligate sedges sere ribband castellated - stellated gnosticism cataclysm unscrupulous discalced shod litany ailinon suet pique (second meaning) oriflamme* - starlings quince flensing surd - as itself, as an (irrational - so not really!) antonym to absurd dominion termopolium divagates bejahung - affirmation (of everythingness) doçura asphodel* - not an M word but i can just *imagine* her saying it out loud druther spinnen** - german for "spider" or "weave" or "be weird or crazy" or "nerd out together" - from Jens' keynote at Snap!Shot luminaria** (or farolito) cineraria gentian crenellated kaffeeklatsch autopoiesis tsundoku* - a person who owns a lot of books they haven't read (but no judgement!) valence* - this is a word (architectural in nature) that M jokingly says she uses to mean whatever she wants it to mean - but not so fast! - valence is related to electrons (chemistry), medicinal extracts (archaic), goodness (psychology), arity (linguistics) - the common thread is "strength" - note also that "valentine" comes eventually from the same root as "valence" - "strength" - there is also "valance," a short drapery panel on top of windows - and a french commune called "valence" - strength, togetherness - valence! carcinization - nature loves turning things into crabs! (i'm reminded of the french video "la révolution des crabes" that m. losier showed us) anodyne quokka and quagga (different mammals!) paracusia credence haustorium (in relation to mistletoe) incarnate** and unfleshed theodolite pert fractal and fraternal (in relation to strange-loops-and-souls - though etymologically speaking these words might be unrelated) proprioception** ("where is your mind at?" asks M) subject-object commutativity (i kiss you, you kiss me, we kiss; hug, call, share, text, touch, high-five, meet, date, f---) trollop fustian effete rococo sui generis sublime, beautiful, picturesque liturgical symposiast malleolus** birefringence* - polarization-dependent index of refraction faience, delftware, maiolica woad aureolin malachite recondite anthropometries (in the sense of yves klein's work) pereviortyshi - topsy-turvies hwæt twigging** (M says this a lot and it makes me smile, smile, smile! also, the Oxford definition is funny in its double-meaning: "it was amazing that Graham hadn't twigged before") civil twilight** (public time and private time) eternal september ressikan astringent** (dry mouth taste, like "jamun" and certain unripe persimmons) eleemosynary eutectic - there must be a good metaphor here... but all i've come up with is too much on-the-nose skolion limerence molybdomancy* badinage stemma codicum* (ivan: "aren't all diagrams the same?") wissenschaft* (ivan: in english we distinguish between science and humanities; in german it's all "wissenschaft"; to me, of course, the word looks like "witchcraft") homebound (double-meaning) share** (M: "with sharing the distinction between becoming and being melts the more you think of it") pellucid wraith frechets divine* - adjective or verb? M shared a tweet about "oh night, divine." and… what is div school? divinity, divination? Nietzsche: "to call someone 'divine' means 'here, we do not have to compete' " libration* (/not/ "liberation" or "libation", though those are also excellent words) - no, libration is the "wagging" of the moon - from my Hertz interview. "wagging!" dithyramb perspicuous santonica vaingloriousness ut nihil non iisdem verbis redderetur auditum sulci and gyri - valleys and folds and ridges of the brain (…and, perhaps, walnuts?) Stria of Gennari postlapsarian* bivalence - giving different values to the same thing (themes like wandering or height or water can be "positively" or "negatively" valenced) - see also: "valence" above remnant - weightiest, perhaps, in the biblical sense colorscripts - a pixar tradition of long sequential painting strips that map the hues of a film over time to craunch a marmoset - croquer le marmot (to knock on a door, as translated in "English as She is Spoke" by Pedro Carolino) exoteric zahir and batin polyperceivable* (greg's word!) obol trephine and trepan cytoarchitectonic contralateral interknuckular* (if you're seeing this in a google search result, you're probably M, in which case, a reminder - don't forget to fluff Yak daily!) relate - a verb, meaning storytelling and (separately? —or maybe not!) meaning connection revenant cant (not "can't") ascesis jouissance pelagic** ("analog lake!") thalamic strabismus quiescent murine (like anatine - used in biology research texts) cholinergic plumule bricolage* syntonic** - or rather, body/ego-syntonic in the Papertian turtle sense - I talk a lot about "kinesthetics" of things, but perhaps the "syntonics" of things is what I mean axolotl - I know what this word means and i know how to spell it but i always have to spell it in my mind before i can say it out loud ructions frisson recrudesce vizier wizened hellion founder - robinson crusoe asks for a definition a list of missing words: + eat : feed :: drink :: ___ + "enmorningen"/"ennighten" (it rained at night, and then it ___ed?) + a word for "polyperceivable" sounds and images rhotic syncretic serged prise fervid fealty encomiums weald munificence gobbets scops or "shapers" - medieval poets stanned corps rapacious scrimshaw sere ("the mere made sere by engineering" - headley's beowulf on grendel's mom's lair - i think also of the manmade armor that goes against the enchanted dragon-hide) skein sclerite sky-designer ague canny betrothed filigree linden fusillade sepsis wyrm bier keened tabret kine* murrain* blains purtenance hyssop lintel victual timbrel retinotopic stereopsis amacrine (cells) amblyopia Hebbian theory - "cells that fire together wire together" mononymous (apparenly my Slack handle is just @K—. I'm like Madonna.) axolotl horopter* ("what do babies see?" - mechanisms for stereopsis) veridical mete omer and ephah betrothed seethe ephod stacte, onycha, galbanum tabernacle topos protracted zamzummim* (chim-chiminey?) typology amerce egocentric (in relation to video footage, e.g. of babies doing their thing) novena munhamunhando - wanderer haunch suaçurana pinima cangussu - portuguese for kangaroo Jaguaretama calabash tree berimbau victuals asemic writing visual diet** - the vision science community's word for what a baby sees mirror neurons (there's maybe something literary about this) rereward inveigle besotted putative apostasy amor patriae recrudesce prosopopeia proprioceptive ethology chromatophore (in)formed - in relation to something like a book or a material work of ark, into which we pour or inscribe memory - from Vampyroteuthis Infernalis immanence and imminence (this may have appeared before earlier in the list…) diverticulum orphic dasein mythomaniacal mesozoa, parazoa, metazoa myrmecological* iniquitous factum and datum dialectically hymenopteric tertius gaudens aere perennius inculcation ensconced vocation - "the call" or "your calling" (at least, so claims Pat Parker) coven* (this is from David) coven, brethren, beholden, soften, sudden, risen, happen: all different kinds of -en endings! swink and swonken tachygen oracular** (M on the prominence of robots in the modern chess scene - I'm reminded of Omer Reingold's lectures) tacit labor - Crystal Abidin - reminds me of sprezzatura Technozoosemiotics chévere ("Flusser's text is really cool. Surprisingly glorious, considering he's insane.") tentacular cirrina teuthology crepitus ophir proskinesis solitons peripatetic* (a Soros interview panelist describes my life story) anophthalmic connubial thanatechnology ides (they exist for non-march months, too!) kalends, nones (thank you M!) sesquipedalian (I received an email with "some truncated expatiation replete with sesquipedalia") pasquinade accismus* adynaton camouflanguage embolalia logogogue* (not a typo) logodaedaly loxodromic navigation logolatry enneagram escrevivência* - writing and living, as per Conceição Evaristo syncretism deuteronomic code gittith granfalloon cloudland* - Bentley talks about a snowflake's "journey through cloudland" polyptoton antanaclasis eringo (shakespeare: snowflake = snow-eringoes) askesis emanata* (comics theory) praline grody graupel** - clumped snowflakes interdigitate* - M!! unprepossessingly - cusk, outline juddering obverse analgesic equipoise insensate enantiosemy endling terminarch* camellias - "a tree so tall it could invert distances" - the orchid at the exposition, astrid cabral tuberoses chamoy hermetically (sealed) firmament* contemptus mundi - in relation to orfeo alopecic* - somewhat an opposite of flocculent? blast tax** - GSB tradition where email blasts need to have a meme attached to make it worth your while teraphim chalcedony interpellate cyclopean trafilatura - Italian word for wire drawing mastic parataxis mammon phylacteries golgotha tonotopy - retinotopy but for sound memristor littoral ausländer sankofa* - it is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten slovenly decollation, collimation calvary - in particular, when the word is used referring to the genre of art representing Calvary narghiles naiads pluttification** - makes me think of M and M pluttifying fractions together… together exogenous oleander eclogues architrave olivette (all of it?) pantser - "There’s wallpaper in the hall even if the stairs lead nowhere at all." (Zadie Smith on kinds of writers) gnomon* (M was briefly a gnomon today!) purple patch purple passage cabala visual diet skandalon - stumbling block -> "scandalize" diegetic glossolalia grammelot macaronic (as in macaronic language) amanuensis protrepsis and paraenesis charity -- cherish (Memorial Church tries to list 1 Corinthians 13:13, but lists faith, hope, charity *and* love!) concision propitiation cliodynamics the channel** - vesta quotes zadie smith, "keep the channel open" peronist proscenium crenellations* adulterine (a castle built without a ~license to crenellate~ (i'm not making this up)) machicolation corbel mashrabiya syntagmatic schwerpunkt akinetopsia gibbous (not gibbons) captive audience, captivated audience (these are different things!) coronel pringles* (not what you think; also, not misspelled) synods irenic apocalypse - a peaceful one (irene = peace), as in "half an hour of silence" before the trumpets inkling, seedling, duckling, darling, earthling, and other -ling words prosopagnosia effluvia planchet mezzanine* (it's just /spelled/ like that, says M) instandbesetzung* - german for "maintenance squatting" or "restorative occupation" mise en place - katherine on penrose cheana féin - irish for "before"/"already" maggidim medlar grimoire** frumenty - herrick's "hock-cart or harvest home," but also i think this came up in ms. ichikawa's random-word-meaning-guessing contest (i lost) parens patriae (King James) lapidary* graminivorous (Dickens, Hard Times) intradiagetic and extradiagetic narrators comic - "something mechanical encrusted upon the living" (Bergson) cozen diocese prelate anabaptistry syllogistically ("deal syllogistically") simony pursuivants varlets in pectore pasquino* and marforio* (the talking statues of Rome) imputation ("data imputation") tergiversate (from Richard Gabriel's Patterns of Software) deleator combobulated* (the opposite of discombobulated?) blazon - in Petrarchan lyric poetry, going from longing to an enumeration of the beloved's qualities spondee* - the foot, but also a libation - herrick's farewell to sack uses spondees during… spondees! a drink to drink! terebinth -> Terabithia mico/micare** - M when I hold up 2 fingers ludus latrunculorum purling eclogue cruciferous* - christina persuasively claims to have a cruciferous vegetable intolerance lariat, quirt Texarkana garrote autoclave prelate (martin marprelate -> mar + prelate, or rather mar @ prelate) aver excrescency lourdan simoom excresence propitiatory tachment - a judicial writ authorizing the apprehension of a person or the seizure of goods (Booy’s note in his edition of The Notebooks of Nehemiah Wallington) timorous coverlet tissintite Rabelaisian** tureen dichoptic haploscope, cheiroscope Eikon Basilike Solvitur ambulando ad lapidem gemba / genba - "the actual place" or "the room where it happens" gastroliths (reminds me of dropstones) bishoprics unpremeditated* - the standard for lyric poetry / elegy in Milton's time - but also, murder - Professor Yu: "premeditation makes it worse!" - "art should be like a crime - you don't discuss it afterwards" firmament (eric uses this to mean… any large flat thing?) partitive / partido alto / palo alto / partita / partida / partito (all different words) schtum georgic arcana imperii Lysenkoism antinomianism levellers, diggers, ranters pomaceous* (also: pomace) quince, medlar, loquat myrmecochory - seed dispersal by ants fritillary ("the great spangled fritillary") celandine parterre Wagyu cows opex and capex repunits flocculant** (!= flocculent) Taizé valetudinarian (not valedictorian) trestle quadrille yeomanry polysemic idiolect lazzarone asperity simper inveterate lacerate subtil kummerspeck and frustfressen - german - the result of stress-eating hireling tabret mazzaroth* neesings cerumen Cyclomatic complexity espadrille rosacea mohair hoiked finial (Qanon Shaman has a “flagpole with a finial spear tip”?) kenopsia dyspeptic callipygian impresario boffo Zapruderian - adverb to strengthen “studied in detail,” based on the cultural reaction to the Zapruder film hornswoggle* asperities