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Listed here are forgotten and newly acquired words discovered while reading
The Interpretation of Dreams by, Sigmund Freud
We are reading The Interpretation of Dreams in celebration of Sigmund Freud's birthday: May 6, 1856 "What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books." - Sigmund Freud
DAIMONIC: The unrest that exists in us all which forces us into the unknown, leading to self-destruction and/or self-discovery.
ReplyDeleteSOMATIC: relating to the body, especially as distinct from the mind:
ReplyDeleteRIGMAROLE: confused or meaningless talk
ReplyDeleteELUCIDATION: explanation that makes something clear; clarification.
ReplyDeleteCONCATENATION: a series of interconnected things or events
ReplyDeleteALBUMEN: a simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues and liquids
ReplyDeleteSCANTY: small or insufficient in quantity or amount
ReplyDeleteCALUMNY: the making of false and defamatory statements about someone in order to damage their reputation; slander.
ReplyDeleteSIMPLETON: a foolish or gullible person.
ReplyDeleteCONTRETEMPS : a minor dispute or disagreement.
ReplyDeletePARLANCE: a particular way of speaking or using words, especially a way common to those with a particular job or interest.
ReplyDeleteJOCULAR: fond of or characterized by joking; humorous or playful.
ReplyDeleteFENSTERLN: German custom were lovers climb a ladder to woo their sweethearts at their bedroom windows.
ReplyDeletePUGNACIOUS: eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight.
ReplyDeleteMEGALOMANIA:
ReplyDeletea symptom of mental illness marked by delusions of greatness, wealth, etc. an obsession with doing extravagant or grand things.
LACUNAE: a missing portion in a book or manuscript.
ReplyDeleteFRIEZE: a heavy woolen fabric with a long nap
ReplyDeleteCHEMISE: a dress hanging straight from the shoulders and giving the figure a uniform shape, popular in the 1920s.
ReplyDeleteBIER: a movable frame on which a coffin or a corpse is placed before burial or cremation or on which it is carried to the grave.
ReplyDeleteADDUCE: cite as evidence.
ReplyDeleteDECALOGUE: the Ten Commandments.
ReplyDeleteOPPROBRIOUS: expressing scorn or criticism.
ReplyDeleteGOITRE: a swelling of the neck resulting from enlargement of the thyroid gland.
ReplyDeleteDIES IRAE, DIES ILLA: day of wrath, day of mourning
ReplyDeleteHOSTELRY: an inn
ReplyDeleteVERMIN: parasitic worms or insects
ReplyDeletePROPYLAEUM: the structure forming the entrance to a temple
ReplyDeleteANAMNESIS: a patient's account of a medical history
ReplyDeleteTABETIC: progressive bodily wasting or emaciation.
ReplyDeleteFOLLIES: lack of good sense; foolishness
ReplyDeletePARNASSUS: A mountain in central Greece, adjacent the site of the ancient city of Delphi, that in Greek mythology was sacred to Apollo and the Corycian nymphs and was the home of the Muses. (figuratively) The home of poetry, literature, and learning.
ReplyDeleteEGO: a person's sense of self-esteem or self-importance.
ReplyDeleteCUTANEOUS: relating to or affecting the skin
ReplyDeleteAMENORRHOEA: an abnormal absence of menstruation.
ReplyDeleteHITHERTO: until now or until the point in time under discussion.
ReplyDeleteAGORAPHOBIA: extreme or irrational fear of entering open or crowded places, of leaving one's own home, or of being in places from which escape is difficult.
ReplyDeleteSCHLEMIHL: a Yiddish term meaning "incompetent person" or "fool".
ReplyDeletePARTURITION: the action of giving birth to young; childbirth
ReplyDeleteAMBIVALENCE: the state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.
ReplyDeletePOLEMIC: a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.
ReplyDeletePARETIC: a person afflicted with paresis (partial paralysis) paralytic - a person suffering from paralysis.
ReplyDeletePERSPICACITY: the quality of having a ready insight into things; shrewdness.
ReplyDeleteCREPUSCULAR: of, resembling, or relating to twilight.
ReplyDeleteREVENANT: a person who returns as a spirit after death; ghost.
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