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I love it when I'm reading and come across fancy new words
I probably spend more time googling definitions than reading

>> No.16183403

Here's a good /lit/ topic. What was the last word you needed to look up (whether it be for the definition or to better understand the context)?

Hyades

>> No.16184621

>>16183403
fantods

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>>16183376
Enjoy it while it lasts anon! Soon you'll have learned all the words and it will be rare to run into new ones.
>>16183403
Otiose

>> No.16185111

>>16183376
Tried to read Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Damn am I retarded

>> No.16185149

>>16183376
based

>> No.16185158

>>16183376
BUILT FOR BBC

>> No.16185198

>>16183403
Welkin
I had never seen it before and had no idea what it was from what an etymology could suggest until I looked it up, made sense in the book’s context though.

>> No.16185216

>>16183376
when i find a word i don't know i write it down in a text file and occasionally review it
here are the last few words i had to look up (some of them i knew more or less but not completely or enough to use in a sentence):
>adiophoron: something inconsequential, indifferent
>irenic: reconciliatory, peacemaking
>ebionitic: ebionites were "a second-century gnostic sect, who rejected paul, and accepted only the gospel of matthew". "ebionitic" then means "the moral worth of poverty", according to these footnotes
>apotheosis: global maximum, highest point, climax, "elevation to divine status" per google
>seigneur: a feudal lord, noble, landowner
>demesne: land owned by yourself, possession of your own land, land belonging to a feudal lord
>subinfeudation: basically, feudal subletting, where a tenant of a lord, would sub-let or "alienate" part of his land to some other person. they were then known as "mesne lords". their tenant was then "tenant in capite", the lowest tenant, the freeholder or "tenant paravail", and the crown was the "lord paramount". eventually, they banned it by saying whoever you rent to is loyal to whoever your own lord is, and you can't add any extra contract to it.
>glebe: land owned by a priest or his church as part of a manorial system, used to sustain him
>fetter: a restraint, to restrain, in particular manacles or legcuffs around the ankles, "shares a root with the word 'foot'" per wikipedia
>lassitude: physical or mental weariness, lack of energy or spirit
>impel: propel, to push forward, drive to action
>quartodecimanism: the early christian practice of celebrating passover on the day of the jewish passover (14 nisan, the first month) instead of easter on easter sunday
>amortize: to pay off the cost over a period
>rapine: plunder, ravishment, seizure by force
>satrap: a provincial governor, a local ruler
>nadir: the lowest, most unsuccessful point of something
>inure: to adapt, become used to, esp. to oppressive or undesirable conditions
>thermidorian: period of french revolution after reign of terror ended with ousting of robespierre, meaning return to moderation and easing away from extreme measures, associated with change in leadership
>aleatory: dependent on chance, luck, uncertain
>exegete: an interpreter of arcane knowledge or signs or oracles
>doyen: the most distinguished or respected person in a particular field
>irascibly: easily provoked to anger
>bestir: to rouse, to exert
>intestate: the state of dying without having drawn up a will
>concomitant: to be naturally associated or occur with something
>seigniorage: profit made by a government by minting currency, the difference between the cost of minting currency and its face value, the sovereign's right to a percentage of bullion brought to be minted into currency, something "claimed by a sovereign as a prerogative"
>penury: "extreme poverty, destitution"
>cygnet: a baby swan, from anglo-norman

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>>16185216
when i find a word i don't know i write it down in a text file and occasionally review it
here are the last few words i had to look up (some of them i knew more or less but not completely or enough to use in a sentence):
>adiophoron: something inconsequential, indifferent
>irenic: reconciliatory, peacemaking
>ebionitic: ebionites were "a second-century gnostic sect, who rejected paul, and accepted only the gospel of matthew". "ebionitic" then means "the moral worth of poverty", according to these footnotes
>apotheosis: global maximum, highest point, climax, "elevation to divine status" per google
>seigneur: a feudal lord, noble, landowner
>demesne: land owned by yourself, possession of your own land, land belonging to a feudal lord
>subinfeudation: basically, feudal subletting, where a tenant of a lord, would sub-let or "alienate" part of his land to some other person. they were then known as "mesne lords". their tenant was then "tenant in capite", the lowest tenant, the freeholder or "tenant paravail", and the crown was the "lord paramount". eventually, they banned it by saying whoever you rent to is loyal to whoever your own lord is, and you can't add any extra contract to it.
>glebe: land owned by a priest or his church as part of a manorial system, used to sustain him
>fetter: a restraint, to restrain, in particular manacles or legcuffs around the ankles, "shares a root with the word 'foot'" per wikipedia
>lassitude: physical or mental weariness, lack of energy or spirit
>impel: propel, to push forward, drive to action
>quartodecimanism: the early christian practice of celebrating passover on the day of the jewish passover (14 nisan, the first month) instead of easter on easter sunday
>amortize: to pay off the cost over a period
>rapine: plunder, ravishment, seizure by force
>satrap: a provincial governor, a local ruler
>nadir: the lowest, most unsuccessful point of something
>inure: to adapt, become used to, esp. to oppressive or undesirable conditions
>thermidorian: period of french revolution after reign of terror ended with ousting of robespierre, meaning return to moderation and easing away from extreme measures, associated with change in leadership
>aleatory: dependent on chance, luck, uncertain
>exegete: an interpreter of arcane knowledge or signs or oracles
>doyen: the most distinguished or respected person in a particular field
>irascibly: easily provoked to anger
>bestir: to rouse, to exert
>intestate: the state of dying without having drawn up a will
>concomitant: to be naturally associated or occur with something
>seigniorage: profit made by a government by minting currency, the difference between the cost of minting currency and its face value, the sovereign's right to a percentage of bullion brought to be minted into currency, something "claimed by a sovereign as a prerogative"
>penury: "extreme poverty, destitution"
>cygnet: a baby swan, from anglo-norman

>> No.16185250

>>16183403
chairs

not even joking

>> No.16185259

>>16185232
>t. bestirred irascible ebionitic quartodecimanist

>> No.16185309

>>16183403
Rufous
It means reddish-brown apparently

>> No.16185403

>>16185216
Do you note where you found these words?

>> No.16185426

>>16185403
i hadn't thought to do that
a few are from wikipedia but most are from books i've read recently

>> No.16186483

>>16183376
Boy do I got just the thing for you

it's called a dictionary

>> No.16186498

>>16183403
Tenebrous.

>> No.16186535

>>16183376
A catgirl should come and eat that rodent.

>> No.16186591

>>16183403
Porfía

>> No.16187581

>>16185250
why?

>> No.16187593

votaried
>>16184621
we all kno what book you are reading
>post-prandial

>> No.16187616

anyone else discovering that you used a word incorrectly and then you have to keep looking up incredibly common words because maybe nothing means what you thought it means?

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>>16183376
Get a kindle. Built in dictionary is so useful.

>> No.16187699

>>16187616
once in a while

>> No.16187718

>>16183403
vernacular

>> No.16187729

>>16185216
I do the same as a result have at least 30 tabs open at the end of a reading session

>> No.16188307

Anthony Burgess and Rex Stout are great for giving you words you never knew existed casually.

>> No.16188490

Used to be in similar situation, until I found the best dictionaries that are concise.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/in-the-way-of ( my favorite )
https://www.lexico.com/
https://chambers.co.uk/

Extra:
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page

What are your best?

>> No.16188494

>>16187616
Yes, but I actually end up correcting myself and ever since I've started to notice that I use words more cautiously.

>> No.16188549

>>16183403
anodyne