New (old) Words
Listed here are forgotten and newly acquired words discovered while reading Milan Kundera's novel, Ignorance.
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. ~Milan Kundera
NOSTOS: the Greek word for "return."
ReplyDeleteALGOS: the GREEK word for "suffering."
ReplyDeleteNOSTALGIA: suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
ReplyDeleteAPOTHEOSIS: The highest point in the development of something; a culmination or climax.
ReplyDeleteCRAVEN: lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted
ReplyDeleteEMIGRE: a person who emigrates for political reasons
ReplyDeleteANATHEMA: a strong curse; imprecation
ReplyDeleteSARTORIAL: of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes
ReplyDeletePIED-A-TERRE: temporary or second lodging
ReplyDeleteBOORISHNESS: of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
ReplyDeletePASTICHE: a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work
ReplyDeleteFAUVISM: a movement in painting typified by the work of Matisse and characterized by vivid colors, free treatment of form, and a resulting vibrant and decorative effect
ReplyDeleteCABAL: the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government)
ReplyDeletePERSPICACITY: the quality of having a ready insight into things; shrewdness
ReplyDeleteRABBLE-ROUSER: one that stirs up the masses of the people (as to hatred or violence)
ReplyDeleteTRENCHANT: keen, sharp
ReplyDeleteINELUCTABLE: not to be avoided, changed, or resisted
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