noun • a hypothetical, invented disease of the lungs, caused by inhaling mineral or metallic dust, such as silicon and quartzite, over a long period of time.
Notes: This is the longest word ever to appear in a major English dictionary.
noun • something to drive away pain
From the Latin lugubris (mournful)
“Malus”—the opposite of a bonus—is this Word Journaler’s favorite.
noun • the contemplation of one’s navel as an aid to meditation; navel-gazing.
noun • 1) lack of knowledge or awareness; ignorance. 2) agnosticism.
Edit: The agnostic sense of the term stems from a specialized use of the adjective nescient in philosophy, so aside from that particular context, nescience just means ignorance.
noun • loss of the capacity to experience pleasure; the inability to gain pleasure from normally pleasurable experiences.
noun • a man who knows of, and tolerates, his wife’s infidelity
noun • hatred of children, especially one’s own.
verb • to cause (a floating log) to spin rapidly by rotating with the feet.
noun • the human brain or a human being considered especially with respect to human logical and computational capabilities.
Derived analogically from hardware and software.
noun • 1) a small diacritic mark, such as an accent, vowel mark, or dot over an “i”. 2) a very small amount; an iota.
Fascinating: “A majority of the Panelists also rejects the verb man when used to refer to an activity performed by women. Fifty-six percent of the Panel (61 percent of the women and 54 percent of the men) disapprove of the sentence Members of the League of Women Voters will be manning the registration desk.”
noun • any small bite of food or appetizer-sized portion, often served before a meal.
Notes: A literal translation of the French word is “mouth-amuser”. An amuse-bouche is also called an “amuse-gueule”. Though “gueule” is slang for “mouth”, it literally refers to an animal-mouth: “animal-mouth-amuser”.
Reduplication is a morphological process by which the root or stem of a word, or part of it, is repeated. Examples of reduplication: hoity-toity, Joe Schmoe, hip-hop, chit-chat, and no-no. This list sorts them into the following types: Type I are rhyming pairs, Type II are ablaut pairs (the vowel changes and consonants remain unchanged), and Type III are total reduplications.
adverb • anew, afresh, again, from the beginning.
adjective • a) serving to relieve pain, soothing. b) not likely to offend, bland, innocuous.
verb • a) to haul under the keel of a ship (a severe form of maritime corporal punishment). b) to rebuke sharply.
