Aoudad: a wild sheep Still going strong. This week will be rather succinct and with fewer pictures and commentary than I'd like, as Bennington's winter residency is in full swing, and sleep is essential for sanity.
Week 2 seemed to be filled with strange anti-words, my favorites being antiboss (opposed to bosses) and antiking (a usurping king, which strikes me as odd, since wouldn't an antiboss then be a usurping boss?). I also liked antirock and antiroll. Additionally, although I am predisposed while at residency to pick up on such things, there were many words that pertain to words and language and rhetoric and evil workshop tactics and the consequences of being at a residency. Some examples:
Week 2 seemed to be filled with strange anti-words, my favorites being antiboss (opposed to bosses) and antiking (a usurping king, which strikes me as odd, since wouldn't an antiboss then be a usurping boss?). I also liked antirock and antiroll. Additionally, although I am predisposed while at residency to pick up on such things, there were many words that pertain to words and language and rhetoric and evil workshop tactics and the consequences of being at a residency. Some examples:
Analects: selections from a literary work or group of works
Anaphor: a word or phrase that takes reference from a preceding word or phrase
Anchress: a female recluse (sometimes, you just need some space after so much socializing)
Anglice: in readily understood English
Antihero: a protagonist who is notably lacking in heroic qualities
Aphasia: the loss of the ability to use words
Aphesis: the loss of an unstressed vowel from the beginning of a word
Apocope: an omission of the last sound of a word
Apodosis: the main clause of a conditional sentence
Apologue: an allegory
Apophony: a patterned change in root vowels of verb forms (ablaut)
Aporia: an expression of doubt for rhetorical effect
Aphonia: loss of voice
⚛ Units of the Week
Almud/almude: a Spanish unit of capacity
Amperage: the strength of an electric current expressed in amperes
Ampere: a unit of electric current strength
Amu: a unit of mass
Angstrom: a unit of length
Anna: a former coin of India and Pakistan
Annal: a record of a single year
!!! Words of the Week
Alky: one who is habitually drunk
Allonym: the name of one person assumed by another (for the purpose of . . . intrigue?)
Aloin: a laxative
Alopecia: baldness
Ambsace/amesace: bad luck
Amerce: to punish by imposing an arbitrary fine
Amrita: a beverage that bestows immortality in Hindu mythology
Amusia: the inability to recognize musical sounds
Angakok: an Eskimo medicine man
Angel: to support financially
Anguine: resembling a snake
Ankus: an elephant goad
Anoopsia: a visual defect
Anosmia: loss of the sense of smell
Antiar: an arrow poison
Anuresis: the inability to urinate
Apache: a Parisian gangster
Aphagia: the inability to swallow
Aquarian: a member of the old sects that used water rather than wine in religious ceremonies
👀 Other Observations
Algum AND almug mean "A precious wood mentioned in the Bible." Was someone partially dyslexic and it became entrenched?
Alienage and alienism mean "the state of being foreign" BUT an alienist is someone who treats mental disorders.
Amygdala is an almond-shaped anatomical part of the brain but amygdule (or amygdale, if you're British) is a small gas bubble in lava—shaped, as you might guess, in the form of an almond.
♡ Favorite Words of the Week
Ambage: a winding path
Ambit: the external boundary of something
Amender: one that improves
Ana: a collection of miscellaneous information about a particular subject (one might say this series does just that)
Anile: resembling an old woman
Anserous: silly
Apetaly: the state of having no petals
Aphotic: lacking light
Appetent: marked by strong desire
Anaphor: a word or phrase that takes reference from a preceding word or phrase
Anchress: a female recluse (sometimes, you just need some space after so much socializing)
Anglice: in readily understood English
Antihero: a protagonist who is notably lacking in heroic qualities
Aphasia: the loss of the ability to use words
Aphesis: the loss of an unstressed vowel from the beginning of a word
Apocope: an omission of the last sound of a word
Apodosis: the main clause of a conditional sentence
Apologue: an allegory
Apophony: a patterned change in root vowels of verb forms (ablaut)
Aporia: an expression of doubt for rhetorical effect
Aphonia: loss of voice
⚛ Units of the Week
Almud/almude: a Spanish unit of capacity
Amperage: the strength of an electric current expressed in amperes
Ampere: a unit of electric current strength
Amu: a unit of mass
Angstrom: a unit of length
Anna: a former coin of India and Pakistan
Annal: a record of a single year
!!! Words of the Week
Alky: one who is habitually drunk
Allonym: the name of one person assumed by another (for the purpose of . . . intrigue?)
Aloin: a laxative
Alopecia: baldness
Ambsace/amesace: bad luck
Amerce: to punish by imposing an arbitrary fine
Amrita: a beverage that bestows immortality in Hindu mythology
Amusia: the inability to recognize musical sounds
Angakok: an Eskimo medicine man
Angel: to support financially
Anguine: resembling a snake
Ankus: an elephant goad
Anoopsia: a visual defect
Anosmia: loss of the sense of smell
Antiar: an arrow poison
Anuresis: the inability to urinate
Apache: a Parisian gangster
Aphagia: the inability to swallow
Aquarian: a member of the old sects that used water rather than wine in religious ceremonies
👀 Other Observations
Algum AND almug mean "A precious wood mentioned in the Bible." Was someone partially dyslexic and it became entrenched?
Alienage and alienism mean "the state of being foreign" BUT an alienist is someone who treats mental disorders.
Amygdala is an almond-shaped anatomical part of the brain but amygdule (or amygdale, if you're British) is a small gas bubble in lava—shaped, as you might guess, in the form of an almond.
♡ Favorite Words of the Week
Ambage: a winding path
Ambit: the external boundary of something
Amender: one that improves
Ana: a collection of miscellaneous information about a particular subject (one might say this series does just that)
Anile: resembling an old woman
Anserous: silly
Apetaly: the state of having no petals
Aphotic: lacking light
Appetent: marked by strong desire
Amole: a plant root used as a substitute for soap.
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