a list of words

a list of words

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  1. laconic: to speak using very few words. 
  2. over-egged: overly embellished or exaggerated.
  3. enshittification: online platforms lowering their quality often by adding advertisements.
  4. moffenhoer – word for Dutch women who slept with nazis and had their heads shaved.
  5. halation – a halo shaped exposure pattern around light sources seen on chemical film at low speed. 
  6. isomorphism = a mapping between two structures of the same type that can be reversed  by an inverse mapping.
  7. sardonic – grimly mocking or critical.
  8. unrelement = an atom in set theory.
  9. Grothendieck Universe = (in theory) a set in which all of mathematics can be performed.
  10. coprolite = fossilised faeces.
  11. sympatico = understanding connection.
  12. thanatos = the personification of death.
  13. effete homosexual = an effeminate gay man.
  14. quotidian = everyday, or routine. 
  15. intransigence = unwillingness to change one’s views or to agree.
  16. Froebel Method – a method of education based on learning through hands on activity, play, and assuming “occupations”.
  17. Usonia =  an old term for the United States of America, coined by Frank Lloyd Wright.
  18. confabulation = the creation of false memories, narratives, or explanations without the intention to deceive.
  19. Cannulated = tubular, to allow something else to pass through (normally a wire). 
  20. Brocken spectre = magnified (and apparently enormous) shadow of an observer cast in mid air upon any type of cloud opposite a strong light source. The figure’s head can be surrounded by a bright area called Heiligenschein, or halo-like rings of rainbow-coloured light forming a glory, which appear opposite the Sun’s direction when uniformly sized water droplets in clouds refract and backscatter sunlight.
  21. augur: to portend a good or bad outcome.
  22. ossified: having turned into bone or boney tissue.
  23. Luther Blisset: a psyeudonom used by creatives around the world for books and music
  24. Wu Ming: Chinese for no-name.
  25. deuteragonist: second in importance to the protagonist.
  26. Akousmatikoi: ‘extremely hard-core Pythagoreans’. they clung onto his every word, as if it was divine dogma. I believe that they didn’t agree with the other type of practitioners trying to further the study of mathematics or science from Pythagoras’ findings. This was as the akousmatikoi believed it not to be their leader’s original intent. They also refused to accept any philosophic evolution and reinterpretation of Pythagoras’ work or sayings. They practised Silence, wearing simple clothes and avoiding meat.
  27. Transport Cafe: a traditional cafe On the motorways of Britain, with an association with motorcycle culture.
  28. Sinistral: left-handed and left sided. 
  29. Liebestod: Love-death, a theatrical device meaning erotic death. 
  30. Portmanteau: a made-up word combining two others e.g. motel. 
  31. aphorism: a useful saying.
  32. sic: indicating a direct quote. 
  33. assegai: a xhosa throwing spear.
  34. ensconse: to settle yourself in a comfortable, safe or secret place.
  35. metronymy: where a related word is used in place of something it is related to – e.g. oval office for US Presidency.
  36. metalepsis: crossovers between narrative levels.
  37. kreuzweg: German for Way of the Cross as well as crossroads.
  38. convive: a fellow drinker or diner at a table, from convivial.
  39. lepidopterist (or, archaically, an aurelian): someone who studies moths. 
  40. sepulchral: suggesting death or places where the dead are buried.
  41. verisimilitude: the appearance of being true or real. 
  42. penumbral: the partially shaded outer region of the shadow of an opaque object. 
  43. a vanity (vanitas): a still-life painting that mix up objects apparently devoid of any reciprocal relationship, but which stand for all that is perishable, and invite us to think of the transience of worldly goods.
  44. memento mori: an artistic reminder of the inevitability of death.
  45. Caesura: a metrical pause or break in a verse where one phrase ends and another begins. 
  46. Volta: a rhetorical shift or dramatic change in thought / emotion in a poem. 
  47. simulacra: copies that depict things that either had no original, or that no longer have an original.
  48. bize: a cold wind from the north in France 
  49. superfecta: a bet on the top four numbers in a race 
  50. davenport: a massachusets term for a sofa.
  51. hypallage: an inversion of the natural relation of two terms in a sentence, especially the transfer or epithets, as when Virgil speaks of a “trumpets tuscan blare” instead of “the tuscan trumpets blare” 
  52. cynosure: a person or thing that is at the centre of attention or admiration.
  53. chicane: a sharp double bend created to form an obstacle on a motor-racing track.
  54. sesquipedalian: something overly complex or difficult to understand.
  55. interstice: an intervening space, especially a very small one.
  56. azimuthal: arc marking the distance of a star from the north or south point of the meridian,” late 14c., from Old French azimut, from Arabic as-sumut “the ways,” plural of as-samt “the way, direction” (see zenith). Related: Azimuthal.
  57. anomie: the lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group.
  58. anapest: a metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable, e.g. com-pre-hend.
  59. umber: an ancient brown pigment. 
  60. morass: an area of boggy ground.
  61. monomaniacal: an unhealthy or unusual obsession with one thing. c.f. most lawyers. 

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