Tsundoku (積ん読)
Noun
Japanese (slang), 19th century
Acquiring reading materials and letting them pile up without reading them. It combines elements of tsunde-oku (積んでおく, to pile things up) and dokusho (読書, reading books). As currently written, the word combines the characters for “pile up” (積) and the character for “read” (読).
Example: My vast tsundoku looks overwhelming, but it’s still comforting to me.
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Passim
Adverb
Latin, 17th century
Of allusions or references in a published work to be found at various places throughout the text.
Example: Hints of my family history are occasionally passim in my writings.
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Dithyramb
Noun
Latin from Greek, early 17th century
A wild choral hymn of ancient Greece, especially one dedicated to Dionysus.
A passionate or inflated speech, poem, or other writing.
Example: My energetic dithyramb on the stupidity of trickle-down economics fell flat at the Ronald Reagan Glee Club meeting.
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Inosculate
Verb
Latin, 17th century
Join by intertwining or fitting closely together.
Example: I often inosculate my dreams with my passion for writing to create unusual tales.
Irrefragable
Adjective
Latin, 16th century
Not able to be refuted or disproved; indisputable.
Example: Voting is an irrefragable right to any democratic society.
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Epigrammatic
Adjective
Latin, 17th century
Of the nature or in the style of an epigram; concise, clever, and amusing.
Example: Whether composing short stories or essays, I often rely upon my epigrammatic personality to get my point across.
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Perspicacious
Adjective
Latin, 17th century
Highly perceptive, keen. Discerning, shrewd
Example: My perspicacious nature showed up early in childhood when I began reading around the age of 2.
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Clerisy
Noun
German, 19th century
A distinct class of learned or literary people.
Example: I generally write essays and stories for the clerisy of the world.
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Redivivus
Adjective
Origin: Latin, late 16th century
Come back to life; reborn.
Example: After an hour of exercise, writing in my journal, and a night of solid sleep, I felt a redivivus of my soul.
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Synecdoche
Noun
Late Middle English, 1350s
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.
Example: My full name is Jorge Lazaro Alejandro De La Garza, but I often go by the synecdoche of “Chief Writing Wolf”.
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