Owen Fitz-George Flashcards
Discursiveness.
Digressing from subject to subject.
Progressing by argument and reasoning rather than by intuition (Philosophy-archaic).
Desultoriness.
Lacking a plan, purpose or enthusiasm.
Going from one subject to another in a half-hearted way.
Excerpted.
Take (a short extract) from a text.
“the notes are excerpted from his forthcoming biography”
Aphorisms.
A pithy (abrupt and vigorously expressive) observation which contains a general truth.
“the old aphorism ‘the child is father to the man’” or:-
Actions speak louder than words.
He who hesitates is lost.
Easy come, easy go.
The early bird gets the worm.
Harangues
A lengthy and aggressive speech.
Vicissitudes
A change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwanted or unpleasant.
Cisheteronormativity.
A pervasive system of belief (on an individual, systemic, and ideological level) that being cisgender and heterosexual (straight), and associated ways of being in the world (life-path, material desires, family/kinship structures, political/social goals, etc.) are the default, and “normal.”
Neoteric
new or modern; recent.
“another effort by the White House to display its neoteric wizardry went awry”
Magniloquent
Using high-flown or bombastic language.
Farouche
Sullen or shy in company
Exegetically
Critical explanation or analysis, especially of a text.
The ‘Phenomenal World’
The world as it appears to human beings as a result of being structured by human understanding;
Transcendental World
The Spiritual (magical) World
Indicible
Unspeakable, inexpressible, indescribable
Palearctic realm (also Palaearctic)
The Palearctic region encompasses Eurasia, including Europe, northern Africa, and Asia north of the Oriental region. Largest of the Earth’s eight biogeographic realms.
hendecasyllable
A line of verse containing eleven syllables.
Ungent
An unguent is a soothing preparation spread on wounds, burns, rashes, abrasions or other topical injuries. It is similar to an ointment, though typically an unguent is oilier and less viscous.
Pudicity
Modest and chaste (modesty and chastity)
Prurience
having, inclined to have, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc. causing lasciviousness or lust. having a restless desire or longing.
Bloviate
Bloviation is a style of empty, pompous, political speech that originated in Ohio and was used by US President Warren G. Harding, who described it as “the art of speaking for as long as the occasion warrants, and saying nothing”.[1] His opponent, William Gibbs McAdoo, compared it to “an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.”[
Shrithed
“to go; take one’s way to a place; go about; wander” to creep.
euhemerism
- the theory that gods arose out of the deification of historical heroes
- any interpretation of myths that derives the gods from outstanding men and seeks the source of mythology in history
