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use these words in daily speech, and you too can be a big asshole!

* limerence - an involuntary, obsessive state of romantic infatuation or longing for another person

* rhizomatic - propagating via underground stems or roots (rhizomes); a decentralized and well-connected system

* renascent - rising again into new life, strength, vigor, or popularity

* retiary - constructing or using a net to catch prey (especially spiders)

* feculent - foul with waste matter or other impure substances

* deictic - relating to a word or an expression whose meaning depends on who says it, where they are, who they are talking to

* anchorite - one who withdraws from society, committed to a life of prayer

* apotropaic - greek ἀποτρέπω ("to ward off"), protective (especially in the sense of magic)

* thalweg - the line of lowest elevation within a waterway; typical division line between entities

* guyot - a flattopped underwater mountain

* soteriology - the theological study of salvation

* cruciarius - one who is crucified

* autothysis - suicidal altruism, when a eusocial animal explodes for the better of the hive

* murmuration - the collective movement of flocks of starlings, particularly during twilight

* psithurism - a soft, calming, and rustling noise caused by wind passing through leaves and branches

* salvific - pertaining to the power of redemption or salvation, particularly safety

* anfractuosity - the quality of being winding or turning, often the brain's sulci. from latin <i>anfractus</i> meaning "bend" or "coil"

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* tergiversate - to use ambiguities and evasions, to equivocate, or to change sides/apostatize

* autonomasy - use of a common word to refer to a particular: "gone to town" for "gone to Atlanta"

==Morphism terminology==

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 use these words in daily speech, and you too can be a big asshole!
+* limerence - an involuntary, obsessive state of romantic infatuation or longing for another person
+* rhizomatic - propagating via underground stems or roots (rhizomes); a decentralized and well-connected system
+* renascent - rising again into new life, strength, vigor, or popularity
+* retiary - constructing or using a net to catch prey (especially spiders)
+* feculent - foul with waste matter or other impure substances
+* deictic - relating to a word or an expression whose meaning depends on who says it, where they are, who they are talking to
+* anchorite - one who withdraws from society, committed to a life of prayer
+* apotropaic - greek ἀποτρέπω ("to ward off"), protective (especially in the sense of magic)
+* thalweg - the line of lowest elevation within a waterway; typical division line between entities
+* guyot - a flattopped underwater mountain
+* soteriology - the theological study of salvation
+* cruciarius - one who is crucified
+* autothysis - suicidal altruism, when a eusocial animal explodes for the better of the hive
+* murmuration - the collective movement of flocks of starlings, particularly during twilight
+* psithurism - a soft, calming, and rustling noise caused by wind passing through leaves and branches
 * salvific - pertaining to the power of redemption or salvation, particularly safety
 * anfractuosity - the quality of being winding or turning, often the brain's sulci. from latin <i>anfractus</i> meaning "bend" or "coil"
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 * tergiversate - to use ambiguities and evasions, to equivocate, or to change sides/apostatize
 * autonomasy - use of a common word to refer to a particular: "gone to town" for "gone to Atlanta"
+==Morphism terminology==
+{{:Morphisms}}