Notes: New Words
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This is a collection of words I come across in my studies that I do not know or that I would like to incorporate into my vocabulary. This list both reflects the limits of my vocabulary, but also my desire to learn more and expand said vocabulary!
English
- seriatum: sequential; taking one subject after another in regular order; point by point
- philology: the branch of knowledge that deals with the structure, historical development, and relationships of a language or language; "the love of articulated thought" (McGann)
- affordances
- assiduously
- prima facie: based on the first impression; accepted as correct until proved otherwise
- hermeneutics: the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, especially of the Bible or literary texts
- quotidian
- implicate
- Sachphilologie
- facticity: the quality or condition of being fact
- archaic
- prosodic: of or relating to prosody (the study of versification, especially, the systematic study of metrical structure; the rhythmic and intonational aspect of language)
- lexicon
- ramify: form branches or offshoots; spread or branch out; cause to branch or spread out
- injunction
- catholic: including a wide variety of things; all-embracing