Besides a great number of words pertaining to abnormal mental activity and various watery discharges from various orifices, my reading this week was surprisingly useful: having never really gotten into mathematical or logic proofs, I had never heard of the word iff, meaning "if and only if." Upon reading that it was a legitimate conjunction, I realized that I had incorrectly edited three instances of it in the last programming textbook I finished editing last week, and I contacted the editor about it and got it sorted out. Scrabble Read-a-thon FTW.
My favorite word this week was impark: to confine in a park. It reminded me of a story we read for a capstone English class I had as an undergraduate—a class on utopias and dystopias. This particular story was Larry Niven's Cloak of Anarchy. People are actually trapped in a park—imparked—and the story describes what happens when anarchy ensues. You can read it online for free here.
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My favorite word this week was impark: to confine in a park. It reminded me of a story we read for a capstone English class I had as an undergraduate—a class on utopias and dystopias. This particular story was Larry Niven's Cloak of Anarchy. People are actually trapped in a park—imparked—and the story describes what happens when anarchy ensues. You can read it online for free here.
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⚛ Units of the Week
Hryvnia: a monetary unit of Ukraine
Hwan: a monetary unit of South Korea
Hyperon: an atomic particle
!!! Unexpected Words of the Week
Hoser: an uncouth man (but not a woman?)
Hosey: to choose sides for a children's game
Howdie: a midwife
Howf: a place frequently visited
Huckle: the hip
Humidex: an index of discomfort
Hurdies: the buttocks
Hydatid: a cyst caused by a tapeworm
Hydragog: a purgative causing watery discharges
Hyponoia: dulled mental activity
Hypopyon: an accumulation of pus in the eye
Hyte: insane
Icekhana: an automotive event held on a frozen lake
Ich: a disease of certain fishes
Ichor: a watery discharge from a wound
Igg: to ignore
Ikebana: the Japanese art of flower arranging
Ileus: intestinal obstruction
Imp: to graft feathers onto a bird's wing
Impala: an African antelope (ANTELOPE ALERT)
Impavid: brave
Impi: a body of warriors
Inane: empty space
Incenter: the point where the three lines bisecting the angles of a triangle meet
Incony: pretty
Incubus: a demon
Ingle: a fire
Inguinal: pertaining to the groin
♡ Favorite Words of the Week
Hottish: somewhat hot
Hugeous: huge
Humanoid: something having human form
Hyetal: pertaining to rain
Ickiness: the state of being icky
Ideate: to form an idea
Idoneity: the state of being idoneous (suitable)
Iffiness: the state of being iffy
Impolicy: an unwise course of action
Inbeing: the state of being inherent
Inchmeal: little by little
Hryvnia: a monetary unit of Ukraine
Hwan: a monetary unit of South Korea
Hyperon: an atomic particle
!!! Unexpected Words of the Week
Hoser: an uncouth man (but not a woman?)
Hosey: to choose sides for a children's game
Howdie: a midwife
Howf: a place frequently visited
Huckle: the hip
Humidex: an index of discomfort
Hurdies: the buttocks
Hydatid: a cyst caused by a tapeworm
Hydragog: a purgative causing watery discharges
Hyponoia: dulled mental activity
Hypopyon: an accumulation of pus in the eye
Hyte: insane
Icekhana: an automotive event held on a frozen lake
Ich: a disease of certain fishes
Ichor: a watery discharge from a wound
Igg: to ignore
Ikebana: the Japanese art of flower arranging
Ileus: intestinal obstruction
Imp: to graft feathers onto a bird's wing
Impala: an African antelope (ANTELOPE ALERT)
Impavid: brave
Impi: a body of warriors
Inane: empty space
Incenter: the point where the three lines bisecting the angles of a triangle meet
Incony: pretty
Incubus: a demon
Ingle: a fire
Inguinal: pertaining to the groin
♡ Favorite Words of the Week
Hottish: somewhat hot
Hugeous: huge
Humanoid: something having human form
Hyetal: pertaining to rain
Ickiness: the state of being icky
Ideate: to form an idea
Idoneity: the state of being idoneous (suitable)
Iffiness: the state of being iffy
Impolicy: an unwise course of action
Inbeing: the state of being inherent
Inchmeal: little by little
(Pages 267–280)