What word were you reminded of recently?
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I was reminded of cavil: to make petty comments. For example, “He cavilled about my new hat and shoes. Really! So what if I put them on a credit card.”
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Augur: to protend a good or bad outcome.
Someone was saying they were digging post holes for a fence, that is auger, they misspelled it.
Bowsette . I’ve been enjoying listening on YouTube.
Supine: the opposite of prone.
I went on a mental inventory check for it because it didn’t show up at once when I retrieved prone. I don’t remember why I thought of prone. It took about twenty minutes for supine to surface.
I do vocabulary checks on myself all the time because words are very distressingly slipping away.
Equanimity
I read a short article in last month’s Scientific American that was all about equanimity in what may be described as the Buddhist sense of the word. The article pointed to several studies in meditation which showed the importance of calmly accepting whatever feelings you may have had regarding a particular incident and only then think about how to deal with the the incident.
Ignominity. From Star Trek TNG. Where the Ferengi use the term after attacking the Enterprise D during a war game practice.
@Jeruba I don’t know. I thought that there was a “t” near the end
The ignominy of defeat.
I only heard that word once.
Not reminded of, but discovered. It appeared in a non-fiction book and I was surprised it is a real word.
eldritch
adjective
el·dritch ˈel-drich
: strange or unnatural especially in a way that inspires fear : WEIRD, EERIE
And the woman, whose voice had risen to a kind of eldritch singsong, turned with a skip, and was gone.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
… the film works its whimsically eldritch spell through inspired casting, brilliant editing, and subtly astonishing special effects …
—Ty Burr
Apricity— the warmth of sunshine in winter.
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