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Excellent Words |
culture, collection |
Long words, excellent words
I can hear them now
~ Peter Gabriel - This is the Picture
Being a non-native English speaker, I'm always striving to expand my foreign vocabulary by collecting various interesting words/phrases from books and other reading/listening materials. I usually write them down in a personal notebook and gradually move them to this page.
Some of the definitions are still in polish. I'm working on them.{{dictionary_letter(letter="B")}}
{{definition(word="Bespectacled" definition="wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass", source="Disco Elysium")}}
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{{definition(word="Carceral" definition="relating to a prison. You probably know a similar word: ,,incarceration''", source="Simulacra and Simulation")}} {{definition(word="Circumvolution" definition="A winding movement, especially of one thing round another", source="Simulacra and Simulation")}} {{definition(word="Cloister" definition="Klasztor", source="Simulacra and Simulation")}} {{definition(word="Collective Effervescence" definition="Spontaneus participation in the same action", source="Simulacra and Simulation")}} {{definition(word="Confinement" definition="Imprisonment, restraint, restriction", source="Simulacra and Simulation")}}
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{{definition(word="De Jure" definition="Practices, which are legally recognized", source="Starość Aksolotla")}} {{definition(word="Defenestration" definition="The act of throwing someone or something out of a window", source="JJay")}} {{definition(word="Defunct" definition="Zmarły, zlikwidowany (?)", source="Simulacra and Simulation")}} {{definition(word="Deterrence" definition="Odstraszenie", source="Oppenheimer (2023)")}}
{{dictionary_letter(letter="F")}} {{definition(word="Fulcrum" definition="The point on which a lever turns or is supported. The most important part of an activity or a situation", source="The Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories")}}
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{{definition(word="Gestalt" definition="From German: shape, figure, form", source="Valis")}}
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{{definition(word="Hapax Legomenon" definition="a word with a special meaning used for a special occasion/a word or an expression that occurs only once within a context", source="How to Speak by Patrick Winston")}}
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{{definition(word="Incessant" definition="Continual, unceasing, permanent, perpetual", source="Simulacra and Simulation")}}
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{{definition(word="Liminality" definition="todo: write", source="The Backrooms Wiki")}} {{definition(word="Locus" definition="The place where something happens or the central area of interest in something", source="The Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories")}} {{definition(word="Languid" definition="Lacking force or quickness of movement", source="Kadhja Bonet - Honeycomb")}}
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{{definition(word="Merveilles" definition="French word for wonders/miracles", source="merveilles.town")}} {{definition(word="Modus vivendi" definition="Way of life - coexistance of conflicting parties", source="Dark (2017)")}}
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{{definition(word="Noblesse oblige" definition="Szlachectwo zobowiązuje", source="Some book by Jacek Dukaj")}} {{definition(word="Non sequitur" definition="Błąd formalny", source="Some book by Jacek Dukaj")}}
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{{definition(word="Persona non grata" definition="person not welcome (in some place, institution)", source="Can't remember")}} {{definition(word="Petrichor" definition="Specific ,,earthy'' scent produced when rain falls on dry soil", source="Preset name on Minilougue xd")}} {{definition(word="Putrefaction" definition="Rot, decay", source="Simulacra and Simulation")}} {{definition(word="Pyrrhic victory" definition="victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat", source="Valis")}} {{definition(word="Portmanteau" definition="Blend word, a word formed by combining sounds and meanings of two or more words", source="Kokorobot.ca")}}
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{{definition(word="Raison d'être" definition="Purpose for existence", source="Ergo Proxy")}} {{definition(word="Rejuvenate" definition="To make younger", source="Simulacra and Simulation")}} {{definition(word="Rhizome" definition="A nonlinear network that ,,connects any point to any other point'', used to describe concepts such as structures of language and knowledge, social relationships, etc. Used in opposition to hierarchical models", source="Explaining Deleuze with drum machines")}} {{definition(word="Reverie" definition="A state of thinking about pleasant things, almost as though you are dreaming. Daydreaming.", source="Son Lux - Prophecy")}}
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{{definition(word="Semantic Satiation" definition="Psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds", source="Don't remember")}} {{definition(word="Subterfuge" definition="Fraud, deception, swindle", source="Simulacra and Simulation")}} {{definition(word="Subversive" definition="Rebelling against authority/governement/tradition/etc", source="Simulacra and Simulation")}} {{definition(word="Sybarite" definition="A person who is self-indulgent in their fondness for sensuous luxury", source="The Futurological Congress")}} {{definition(word="Synesthesia" definition="Perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory", source="Can't remember, started experiencing it at childhood while listening to Yazoo and Bryan Ferry")}} {{definition(word="Schlaraffenland" definition="A land of plenty in medieval myth, an imaginary place of extreme luxury", source="Summa Technologiae")}} {{definition(word="Salient" definition="Something that projects outward or upward from its surroundings", source="How to speak")}} {{definition(word="Sonification" definition="Sonification is the use of non-speech audio to convey information or perceptualize data", source="")}} {{definition(word="Schadenfreude" definition="Delight in another person's misfortune", source="")}}
{{dictionary_letter(letter="T")}} {{definition(word="Tantrum" definition="Intense emotional outburst. Commonly used wording: temper tantrum", source="Can't remember")}}
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{{definition(word="Veritable" definition="Real, true, authentic, very", source="Simulacra and Simulation")}}
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{{definition(word="Yakamoz" definition="Turkish word, meaning 'the reflection of moonlight on water'", source="Found randomly on the internet")}}
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